Keep those rangers on the rampage - Our bullets will do it
Ordnance-plant poster: dark silhouettes of helmeted soldiers with bayonetted rifles wade ashore from a landing boat toward a palm-fringed island, under the headline 'KEEP THOSE RANGERS ON THE RAMPAGE' and an orange band 'OUR BULLETS WILL DO IT'. The poster ties the worker's output to the soldiers' action: the plant's bullets are made the means of the advance.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Twin Cities Ordnance Plant (artist Gene Mark)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, 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)
Twin Cities Ordnance Plant (artist Gene Mark). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1214 (NAID 514820).
Text on the object
KEEP THOSE RANGERS ON THE RAMPAGE OUR BULLETS WILL DO IT [signature: Gene Mark] [imprint: DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY TWIN CITIES ORDNANCE PLANT]
