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title: 'U.S.A. in action: Invasion success depends on supplies!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/usa-in-action-invasion-success-depends-on-supplies-1944/
description: 'Photo-montage sheet headed ''U.S.A. IN ACTION'': Marines firing a pack howitzer, a soldier leading a pack horse, a flame-thrower in jungle.'
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Captions use the period slang terms 'Nips' and 'Japs' for Japanese troops and show combat photographs including a flame-thrower in use. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![U.S.A. in action: Invasion success depends on supplies!, 1944 US poster: Photo-montage sheet headed 'U.S.A. IN ACTION'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/usa-in-action-invasion-success-depends-on-supplies-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/usa-in-action-invasion-success-depends-on-supplies-1944.jpg)

# U.S.A. in action: Invasion success depends on supplies!

Photo-montage sheet headed 'U.S.A. IN ACTION': Marines firing a pack howitzer, a soldier leading a pack horse, a flame-thrower in jungle, Signal Corps men in a cave and a hospital supply depot, each with a caption, over the banner 'Invasion success depends on SUPPLIES!'. Selected images of equipment in use are paired with the printed enemy labels 'Nips' and 'Japs'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
U.S.A. IN ACTION
TOUGH GOING at Tarawa in the Gilberts finds the Marines blasting out Nips with a 75 mm. pack howitzer. Note holes where bullet went through helmet on Marine standing over gun!
GET A HORSE! Man's best friend comes into his own again in Italy as a mode of transporting supplies for a mountain division. In this campaign the supply problem is extraordinarily difficult.
U. S. ARMY
OFFICIAL POSTER
(Right) "JOIN YOUR ANCESTORS!" says a portable flame thrower at Munda, clearing out a nest of Japs who won't surrender. This equipment has proved its worth thousands of times against bunkers and pillboxes in the dense jungle.
(Left) CAVEMEN OF TODAY. These Signal Corps men keep the messages flowing from a switchboard established deep in a natural air raid shelter - a cave in the Southwest Pacific area (note rock formation overhead).
(Right) DEPOT, ICELAND STYLE. This well-ordered supply room of a base hospital just below the Arctic Circle would do credit to any metropolitan establishment in the U. S. It's almost a pleasure to be sick here!
Invasion success depends on SUPPLIES!
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 O - 571510
```

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