... pass the ammunition: O.K. soldier - that's our job!
Painted poster of a helmeted soldier carrying a crate stencilled FUZES with a gun firing behind him; the reply O.K. soldier - that's our job! speaks for the war worker. The tell is the borrowed phrase pass the ammunition and the soldier's direct gaze at the viewer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army (artist Frederic Stanley)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Ordnance Department, U.S. Army (artist Frederic Stanley). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1500 (NAID 515165).
Text on the object
"... pass the ammunition" O.K. soldier - that's our job! 50 FU ZES P.D., M46 LOT 290 [crate stencil, partly legible] [signature:] Frederic Stanley ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY KEEP 'EM SHOOTING! [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-648046
