Keep things buzzing - Help produce for victory
Production-drive sheet: three cartoon bees in caps marked 'D' paint and assemble a small grey aircraft in front of a large red disc, with the headline 'KEEP THINGS BUZZING' and 'HELP PRODUCE FOR VICTORY'. The technique is faint: a plain request to work harder, carried by friendly cartoon workers. A winged 'Douglas War Production Drive' badge appears at right.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Douglas Aircraft Company, War Production Drive (artist Fred W. Jones)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Douglas Aircraft Company, War Production Drive (artist Fred W. Jones). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1212 (NAID 514818).
Text on the object
KEEP THINGS BUZZING HELP PRODUCE FOR VICTORY [imprint: DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE badge] [signature: FRED W. JONES, ILLUSTRATED PARTS CATALOG.] E101
