--- title: Open Storage url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/open-storage-war-department-1944/ description: 'Instructional training sheet for soldiers: a large painted panel of a helmeted GI stacking crates in a tropical setting.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Open Storage [![Open Storage, 1944 US poster: Instructional training sheet for soldiers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/open-storage-war-department-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/open-storage-war-department-1944.jpg) # Open Storage Instructional training sheet for soldiers: a large painted panel of a helmeted GI stacking crates in a tropical setting, and five smaller panels numbered 2 to 6 on dispersing, covering, camouflaging, stacking and rotating stock. The sheet is mostly practical instruction; the technique is faint, ordinary soldiers shown doing the task. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Open Storage KEEP STOCK OFF THE GROUND ... 1 Use logs, stones, or coral as foundations for platforms. The foundation must be high enough to cover the highest possible water level. Provide drainage ditches on all sides. STACK IT PROPERLY ... 2 Use block or modified stacking for items which are uniform in size, weight, and content. Arrange supplies for easy receipt and issue. DISPERSE IT ... 3 Supply installations are vulnerable to air attack. To reduce possibility of complete loss do not stock all of one item in one place. COVER IT AGAINST WEATHER ... 4 Protect supplies with paulins, tentage, or any covering available. Tie covering securely. Allow adequate air circulation above, below, and between stacks. CAMOUFLAGE IT ... 5 Supply dumps are prime targets. Tarpaulins used with nets and natural foliage will both camouflage and protect supplies. ROTATE IT ... 6 The "first in, first out" principle reduces spoilage. Check constantly for freezing, mildew, rot, rust, and rodents. [imprint:] DISTRIBUTION: Continental: AAF (2), AGF (2), ASF (2). In accordance with Part II, ASF Cir. No. 376, 1944 and Section I, ASF Cir. No. 181, 1944. Overseas: T of Opns (2), D of Comd (2), A (2); CHQ (2). T/O & E: 10-197 (2); 10-227 (2); 10-367 (1); 10-387 (2); 10-520-1 (2); 29-620-1 (6). [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945—O—628664 [imprint:] OPEN STORAGE Approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 38-5 WAR DEPARTMENT, 15 DECEMBER 1944 Reproduction without permission prohibited ``` [← One mistake is one too many (partial banner)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/one-too-many-ordnance-banner-slide-1944/) [Our ceiling price list: we post 'em, you check 'em →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-ceiling-price-list-we-post-em-you-check-em-1944/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trois-tetes-sous-le-meme-bonnet-1789/) (France · 1789 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities) - ['This log cabin was the first building erected on the North Bend', Whig print by T. Sinclair, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harrison-north-bend-log-cabin-sinclair-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Plain folks, Transfer) - [Treeing Coons (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/treeing-coons-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Plain folks) - [Zachary Taylor, People's Candidate for President (Currier banner), 1848](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/taylor-fillmore-peoples-candidate-1848/) (United States · 1848 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities) - ['Little Mac.' (from the Democratic presidential campaign songster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/little-mac-song-sheet-feeks-1864/) (United States · 1864 · Bandwagon, Plain folks) - [The peoples' choice, H. Greeley G. Brown](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-choice-greeley-brown-1872/) (United States · 1872 · Bandwagon, Plain folks) - [The working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, 'The Galena Tanner.' For Vice-President, Henry Wilson, 'The Natick Shoemaker.'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/working-mans-banner-grant-1872/) (United States · 1872 · Plain folks, Transfer) - [The Chappaqua farmer](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chappaqua-farmer-1872/) (United States · Jul 1872 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities)