Smoke pots, M1 and M5
Military training chart: cutaway and exterior drawings of HC-smoke pots with labelled parts (scratcher, match head, starter mixture, clamp, electric squib, felt washer, tear strip handle, binding clips). It is an instructional diagram; the technique is faint, limited to the official War Department approval it carries (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department, Graphic Training Aid 3-9
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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)
U.S. War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1760 (NAID 515432).
Text on the object
SMOKE POTS, M1 AND M5 SCRATCHER MATCH HEAD STARTER MIXTURE CLAMP HC-SMOKE EA-4-43 LOT-123 SMOKE MIXTURE ELECTRIC SQUIB MATCH HEAD FELT WASHER SCRATCHER BLOCK HC-SMOKE A 8-43 LOT 123 TEAR STRIP HANDLE BINDING CLIPS [imprint:] SMOKE POTS, M1 AND M5 Approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 3-9 Ref. TM 3-300 WAR DEPARTMENT · 25 AUGUST 1944 Reproduction without permission prohibited [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944 — [illegible]
