We need lumber for planes
Red-and-white sheet headed 'We Need Lumber' above four drawn faces of a soldier, sailor, airman and Marine, with a photo montage of plywood wings, a wooden fuselage frame and a woman at a wood planer, closing 'for Planes'. The tell for transfer is the servicemen's faces standing for the demand; card-stacking appears in the selection of wood-built aircraft photographs.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Lumber and Timber Products War Committee, Washington, D.C.
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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)
Lumber and Timber Products War Committee, Washington, D.C.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-476 (NAID 513946).
Text on the object
WE NEED LUMBER [caption:] TRANSPORT [caption:] AERO WOOD [caption:] PLYWOOD WINGS [caption:] TRAINER [caption:] BOEING for PLANES [imprint:] LUMBER AND TIMBER PRODUCTS WAR COMMITTEE, 1319 18TH ST. N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. [imprint:] 5-43-5M
