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title: Keep 'em Shooting! Your Army needs more metal for more guns and bullets
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-em-shooting-your-army-needs-more-metal-1942/
description: Painted scene of three helmeted soldiers in tall grass behind a belt-fed machine gun firing, under the headline 'Keep 'em Shooting!' and the line 'Your
section: Collection
---

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[![Keep 'em Shooting! Your Army needs more metal for more guns and bullets, 1942 US poster: Painted scene of three helmeted](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-em-shooting-your-army-needs-more-metal-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-em-shooting-your-army-needs-more-metal-1942.jpg)

# Keep 'em Shooting! Your Army needs more metal for more guns and bullets

Painted scene of three helmeted soldiers in tall grass behind a belt-fed machine gun firing, under the headline 'Keep 'em Shooting!' and the line 'Your Army needs MORE METAL for MORE guns and bullets'. The technique is faint here: the image of soldiers firing is tied to the civilian act of supplying metal, a loose transfer, with the request for scrap named only in words.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
KEEP 'EM
SHOOTING!
Your Army needs
MORE METAL
FOR MORE GUNS AND BULLETS
U. S. ARMY
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—489579
```

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