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title: Let's go, everybody! Keep 'em firing!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-go-everybody-keep-em-firing-oldsmobile-1942/
description: War-production poster of a shouting factory worker in a blue shirt swinging a clenched fist, above a red panel with the words 'Keep 'em firing!'.
section: Collection
---

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# Let's go, everybody! Keep 'em firing!

War-production poster of a shouting factory worker in a blue shirt swinging a clenched fist, above a red panel with the words 'Keep 'em firing!', fighter planes, a gun crew and tanks firing. The worker's effort and the front-line firing are joined in one design, so the soldiers' action is presented as the factory's output (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
LET'S GO, EVERYBODY!
KEEP 'EM FIRING!
COPYRIGHT, 1942—OLDSMOBILE DIVISION, GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
-4-  LITHO. IN U.S.A.
```

[← Let's go... Canada! (Canada, 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-go-canada-recruiting-poster-1942/) [Let's go. Help "fire that last shot" with the U.S. Marines →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-go-fire-that-last-shot-us-marines-1942/)

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