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title: You Mined This Mine
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-you-mined-this-mine-ministry-of-fuel-and-power-1942/
description: A photograph shows a group of men in caps and overalls steadying a naval mine as it is lifted on a hoist against a pale sky.
section: Collection
---

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[![You Mined This Mine, 1942 UK poster: A photograph shows a group of men in caps and overalls steadying a naval mine as it](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-you-mined-this-mine-ministry-of-fuel-and-power-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-you-mined-this-mine-ministry-of-fuel-and-power-1942.jpg)

# You Mined This Mine

A photograph shows a group of men in caps and overalls steadying a naval mine as it is lifted on a hoist against a pale sky. The headline 'YOU MINED THIS MINE' and the figures on coal needed to make and fill it (4 tons and 40 or more) credit the miner with the weapon (identity-fusion).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
YOU MINED THIS MINE

It takes 4 tons of coal
to make this mine and
40 or more to 'fill' it

ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER
H.77
[small print:] PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI-MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON S.E.4. 51-2086 [partly illegible]
```

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