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title: I'm a fightin' man too! Watch my smoke!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/im-a-fightin-man-too-watch-my-smoke-bressler-1942/
description: 'Industrial morale poster: a scowling shirt-sleeved worker with a ''V'' button flexes his arm in front of factory chimneys while battleship gun barrels'
section: Collection
---

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[![I'm a fightin' man too! Watch my smoke!, 1942 US poster: Industrial morale poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/im-a-fightin-man-too-watch-my-smoke-bressler-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/im-a-fightin-man-too-watch-my-smoke-bressler-1942.jpg)

# I'm a fightin' man too! Watch my smoke!

Industrial morale poster: a scowling shirt-sleeved worker with a 'V' button flexes his arm in front of factory chimneys while battleship gun barrels project from the smoke behind him. The guns are placed as the worker's own arm, carrying the prestige of the fighting forces over to the factory hand (transfer). Headline: "I'm a fightin' man too!"

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"I'M A
FIGHTIN' MAN
TOO!"
"WATCH MY SMOKE!"
[signature: BRESSLER]
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
Copyright 1942 by "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division
of BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc.
```

[← I'll give 'em hell! You give me the stuff!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ill-give-em-hell-you-give-me-the-stuff-ordnance-1942/) [I'm out to lick runaway prices →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/im-out-to-lick-runaway-prices-1942/)

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