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title: Rationing is sharing with our fighters and neighbors
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rationing-is-sharing-with-our-fighters-and-neighbors-opa-1943/
description: 'Type-only home-front poster in blue, white and red bands: ''RATIONING'', ''IS SHARING'', ''With Our Fighters and Neighbors''. There is no picture.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Rationing is sharing with our fighters and neighbors, 1943 US poster: Type-only home-front poster in blue, white and red](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/rationing-is-sharing-with-our-fighters-and-neighbors-opa-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/rationing-is-sharing-with-our-fighters-and-neighbors-opa-1943.jpg)

# Rationing is sharing with our fighters and neighbors

Type-only home-front poster in blue, white and red bands: 'RATIONING', 'IS SHARING', 'With Our Fighters and Neighbors'. There is no picture. The tell is the reframing of rationing as sharing and the grouping of soldiers and neighbors into one 'we', with no specifics about what is rationed.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
RATIONING
IS SHARING
With Our Fighters
and Neighbors
O. P. A. POSTER
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—518863]
```

[← Radius of action is navigator's problem](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radius-of-action-is-navigators-problem-1943/) [Rationing means a fair share for all of us (cartoon version) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rationing-means-a-fair-share-for-all-of-us-cartoon-opa-1943/)

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