--- title: Scrap helps to make tanks, jeeps and guns url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/scrap-helps-to-make-tanks-jeeps-guns-1941/ description: Six-photograph sheet running from scrap yards and a molten-metal ladle to a tank, a jeep and field guns, each with a caption. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Scrap helps to make tanks, jeeps and guns [![Scrap helps to make tanks, jeeps and guns, 1941 US poster: Six-photograph sheet running from scrap yards and a molten-metal](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/scrap-helps-to-make-tanks-jeeps-guns-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/scrap-helps-to-make-tanks-jeeps-guns-1941.jpg) # Scrap helps to make tanks, jeeps and guns Six-photograph sheet running from scrap yards and a molten-metal ladle to a tank, a jeep and field guns, each with a caption. The tell is the chain of images that carries the prestige of the armed forces onto farm scrap, backed by one selected figure ('50 per cent of the steel in this tank is scrap'). ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` SCRAP HELPS TO MAKE TANKS, JEEPS AND GUNS STEEL MILLS NEED FARM SCRAP. Heavy scrap metal collected from farms and rural areas is received at the steel mill where it will be processed into steel for weapons of war. CAR BODIES MAKE BUNDLES OF STEEL. The car bodies beside this railroad siding have been burned out and are now ready for the press which will convert them into the tidy little bundles of steel shown in the freight cars. Automobile bodies must be pressed into this compact form to prevent them from "burning up" in the steel furnaces. MOLTEN METAL SPEEDS STEEL PRODUCTION. A ladle of molten iron from a blast furnace is poured into an open hearth furnace for conversion into steel. This process speeds steel production by saving melting time. 50 PER CENT OF THE STEEL IN THIS TANK IS SCRAP. The scrap remaining on U. S. farms today could build a fleet of such tanks as shown above that would be invincible. Your scrap is needed to make all the planes, ships, tanks and guns needed for Victory. THE TOUGHEST LITTLE THING ON WHEELS. United States Army jeeps require tough steel to withstand the punishment they must take on our battlefronts. Scrap from farms and from old automobiles help to make the jeep withstand heavy poundings. THESE GUNS USE TONS OF STEEL. When these field pieces go into action, their barrels must be made of the finest steel to insure accuracy, and every time they are fired, it means that pounds of your old scrap are being hurled at the enemy. Consider the number of weapons of this type in action, and you get a fair idea of how much scrap is needed, not only to fire this type of gun, but all other weapons used on our world wide battlefronts. ``` [← Scram! Give 'em the boot!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/scram-give-em-the-boot-1941/) [Scrap! Will help win. Don't mix it! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/scrap-will-help-win-dont-mix-it-hein-werner-1941/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)