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title: Let's give our boys more of those disintegrating 50's - Keep 'em shooting!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-give-our-boys-more-disintegrating-50s-1942/
description: Production poster with a smiling pilot in goggles, a pasted-in Associated Press clipping headed 'Flying Fortress Defeats Six Jap Planes at Wake' with a red
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Contains the period wartime slur 'Jap' in a pasted newspaper clipping and quotation about enemy aircraft. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Let's give our boys more of those disintegrating 50's - Keep 'em shooting!, 1942 US poster: Production poster with a smiling](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-give-our-boys-more-disintegrating-50s-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-give-our-boys-more-disintegrating-50s-1942.jpg)

# Let's give our boys more of those disintegrating 50's - Keep 'em shooting!

Production poster with a smiling pilot in goggles, a pasted-in Associated Press clipping headed 'Flying Fortress Defeats Six Jap Planes at Wake' with a red oval around a pilot's quote, a burning plane trailing smoke and a .50 caliber cartridge. The clipping and the quoted major are the testimonial; one reported engagement stands for the case for more ammunition.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
KEEP 'EM SHOOTING!
Let's Give
Our Boys
MORE
Of Those
MINNEAPOLIS
Flying Fortress
Defeats Six Jap
Planes at Wake
HEADQUARTERS, HAWAIIAN AIR FORCE—(AP)—An American flying fortress on a secret mission to Japanese-held Wake Island destroyed four of six Japanese planes which rose to attack it and returned to its base with three bullet holes as the only damage.
A fifth enemy plane probably was destroyed and the sixth, which followed the fortress to a point 150 miles from Wake, was given only a 50-50 chance to make its way back to its base because of prevailing bad weather.
The attack occurred last weekend.
* * *
"We just disintegrated the Jap planes," said Major George B. Glober, of San Angelo, Texas. "It takes only a few of our .50 caliber shells to disintegrate them."
DISINTEGRATING
50's
```

The lower edge of the clipping is partly covered by the red oval and the word DISINTEGRATING; the last words of the quotation are read as far as visible.

[← Let's give him enough and on time](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-give-him-enough-and-on-time-rockwell-1942/) [Let's go... Canada! (Canada, 1942) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-go-canada-recruiting-poster-1942/)

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