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title: See How Your Salvage Helps a Bomber
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-see-how-your-salvage-helps-a-bomber-1939/
description: A cutaway of an RAF twin-engined bomber with four numbered arrows ties household scrap metal, waste paper, waste rubber and bones to parts of the aircraft
section: Collection
---

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[![See How Your Salvage Helps a Bomber, 1939 UK poster: A cutaway of an RAF twin-engined bomber with four numbered arrows ties](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-see-how-your-salvage-helps-a-bomber-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-see-how-your-salvage-helps-a-bomber-1939.jpg)

# See How Your Salvage Helps a Bomber

A cutaway of an RAF twin-engined bomber with four numbered arrows ties household scrap metal, waste paper, waste rubber and bones to parts of the aircraft, from bombs and guns to dinghies and explosives. The tell is transfer: the standing of the aircraft and its crew is attached to the everyday act of putting out rubbish.

## 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

```
SEE HOW YOUR SALVAGE
HELPS A BOMBER

1 SCRAP METAL
IS NEEDED FOR BOMBS,
MACHINE-GUNS, CANNON AND
CANNON SHELLS, AERO-ENGINES,
RADIO & OTHER INSTRUMENTS

2 WASTE PAPER
BOMB WASHERS, ENGINE
GASKET WASHERS, BOMB
INTERIOR CONTAINERS
CARTRIDGE BOXES, ENGINE
DUST COVERS, CARTRIDGE WADS,
RADIO INSULATION & LAMINATED
PLASTIC SHEETS. ONE TON OF
PAPER JOINTING USED IN EVERY
MILE OF CONCRETE RUNWAY

3 WASTE RUBBER
LANDING WHEEL TYRES, SELF-
SEALING TANK, COLLAPSIBLE
RUBBER DINGHY, RADIO AND
INSTRUMENT INSULATION,
OXYGEN MASK, LIFE-SAVING
JACKETS

4 BONES
GLYCERINE FOR EXPLOSIVES

Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co., Ltd., London, E.C. 3.-51-2912.
M.O.S. & R. 75
```

[← Scrap Metal Helps to Make Tanks](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-scrap-metal-helps-to-make-tanks-1939/) [Send airgraphs - they save aircraft space →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-send-airgraphs-save-aircraft-space-1939/)

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