---
title: Let Me Do the Talking! Serve in Silence
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/let-me-do-talking-serve-silence-1942/
description: Poster showing a large artillery gun barrel pointing at the viewer, headline 'Let ME do the talking!' (ME underlined) and a banner 'Serve in silence'.
section: Collection
---

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# Let Me Do the Talking! Serve in Silence

Poster showing a large artillery gun barrel pointing at the viewer, headline 'Let ME do the talking!' (ME underlined) and a banner 'Serve in silence'. Transfer: the authority of the gun is used to give civilian silence the weight of military service. No enemy figure appears.

## Text on the object

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

```
LET ME DO THE
TALKING!

SERVE IN SILENCE
[smaller line below, illegible]
```

Smaller footer line is not readable at 116 px width.

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