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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (OWI Poster No. 63), artist H. Koerner
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-380 (NAID 513832).
Text on the object
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]
