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title: Right guys... use tools right
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/right-guys-use-tools-right-army-save-1944/
description: 'Photographic Army sheet: a helmeted soldier in coveralls inspects a wrench, with more tools and a grease gun laid on a bench.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Right guys... use tools right, 1944 US poster: Photographic Army sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/right-guys-use-tools-right-army-save-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/right-guys-use-tools-right-army-save-1944.jpg)

# Right guys... use tools right

Photographic Army sheet: a helmeted soldier in coveralls inspects a wrench, with more tools and a grease gun laid on a bench, under the headline of the title. Three care rules sit at left. The technique is faint here; the ordinary working soldier is the only persuasive device, with the closing slogan 'Use the right tool, use the tool right'.

## 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

```
RIGHT GUYS...
...use tools right

KEEP TOOLS CLEAN
KEEP THEM OILED
PUT THEM AWAY

USE THE RIGHT TOOL • USE THE TOOL RIGHT

[imprint:] SAVE (U.S. ARMY CONSERVATION PROGRAM)
ARMY CONSERVATION PROJECT NO. 134-O-26    ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—621094
```

The GPO number at lower right is small; the final digits are read as best possible.

[← Repairs: They've just got to be right!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/repairs-theyve-just-got-to-be-right-general-cable-1944/) [Running in work areas is strictly forbidden →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/running-in-work-areas-forbidden-1944/)

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