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title: We need lumber for boxing
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-need-lumber-for-boxing-1943/
description: 'Companion sheet to ''for Planes'': ''We Need Lumber'' over four drawn servicemen''s faces, a photo montage of crated jeeps, rifles.'
section: Collection
---

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[![We need lumber for boxing, 1943 US poster: Companion sheet to 'for Planes': 'We Need Lumber' over four drawn servicemen's](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-need-lumber-for-boxing-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-need-lumber-for-boxing-1943.jpg)

# We need lumber for boxing

Companion sheet to 'for Planes': 'We Need Lumber' over four drawn servicemen's faces, a photo montage of crated jeeps, rifles, aircraft engines and a packaged plane, and a soldier walking past stacked crates, closing 'for Boxing'. The tell for transfer is the servicemen's faces attached to the request; card-stacking is the choice of shipping-crate photographs.

## 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

```
WE
NEED
LUMBER
[caption:] JEEP IN A BOX
[caption:] GARAND RIFLES
[caption:] AIRCRAFT MOTORS
[caption:] PACKAGED PLANE
[caption:] VICTORY VITTLES
for BOXING
[imprint:] LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS WAR COMMITTEE, 1319 18TH ST. N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C.
[imprint:] 5-43-5M
```

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