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title: Our home front 'Task Force!' Like soldiers... on the job at dawn! On time... all the time
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-home-front-task-force-on-time-all-the-time-1941/
description: Drawn workers in caps with V badges walk toward smoking factory stacks at dawn, a woman and other workers behind them.
section: Collection
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[![Our home front 'Task Force!' Like soldiers... on the job at dawn! On time... all the time, 1941 US poster: Drawn workers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-home-front-task-force-on-time-all-the-time-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-home-front-task-force-on-time-all-the-time-1941.jpg)

# Our home front 'Task Force!' Like soldiers... on the job at dawn! On time... all the time

Drawn workers in caps with V badges walk toward smoking factory stacks at dawn, a woman and other workers behind them, under 'Our home front Task Force!' and 'On time... all the time'. The tell is the military comparison: the headline likens factory workers to soldiers to ask for punctual attendance.

## 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

```
Our Home Front
"TASK FORCE!"
LIKE SOLDIERS... ON THE JOB AT DAWN!
ON TIME...
ALL THE TIME
[signature:] PACKER
[imprint:] PRINTED IN U.S.A.
[imprint:] Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
```

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