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title: 'Mine America''s Coal: we''ll make it hot for the enemy!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mine-americas-coal-well-make-it-hot-for-the-enemy-1944/
description: 'War Manpower Commission poster: a painted portrait of a smiling coal miner in a lamped helmet, with a service-flag pin with two stars on his collar.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Mine America's Coal: we'll make it hot for the enemy!, 1944 US poster: War Manpower Commission poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mine-americas-coal-well-make-it-hot-for-the-enemy-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mine-americas-coal-well-make-it-hot-for-the-enemy-1944.jpg)

# Mine America's Coal: we'll make it hot for the enemy!

War Manpower Commission poster: a painted portrait of a smiling coal miner in a lamped helmet, with a service-flag pin with two stars on his collar, on a black ground. Headline 'Mine America's Coal' above and the miner's quoted words '...we'll make it hot for the enemy!' below, then 'See your United States Employment Service'. The quote is a testimonial put in a worker's mouth; the grimed face is plain folks.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
MINE AMERICA'S COAL
"...we'll make it hot
for the enemy!"
SEE YOUR UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
[signature:] norman rockwell
[imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1944 O-604172
```

[← Men wanted today to work on pulpwood cutting, logging and in saw mills](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/men-wanted-today-pulpwood-logging-saw-mills-1944/) [The Operation of Democracy (Minshushugi no un'yo), Japanese-language U.S. poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/minshushugi-no-unyo-japanese-language-poster-1944/)

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