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title: Save waste fats for explosives
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/save-waste-fats-for-explosives-1943/
description: 'Home-front salvage poster: a hand tips a frying pan so a thread of cooking fat runs down into a burst of light, around which shells and bombs point inward.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Save waste fats for explosives, 1943 US poster: Home-front salvage poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-waste-fats-for-explosives-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-waste-fats-for-explosives-1943.jpg)

# Save waste fats for explosives

Home-front salvage poster: a hand tips a frying pan so a thread of cooking fat runs down into a burst of light, around which shells and bombs point inward. The picture links a kitchen chore to munitions, a transfer of the weight of the weapons onto household fat; the printed instruction is to take the fats to the meat dealer.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Save waste fats for explosives
TAKE THEM TO YOUR MEAT DEALER
[signature: H. KOERNER]
[imprint: OWI Poster No. 63. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.]
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—527285]
```

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