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title: Where skill and courage count
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/where-skill-and-courage-count-signal-corps-1942/
description: 'Signal Corps poster: a giant helmeted lineman-soldier stands over a burning village with a field telephone at his ear and a splice in his hand.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Where skill and courage count, 1942 US poster: Signal Corps poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/where-skill-and-courage-count-signal-corps-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/where-skill-and-courage-count-signal-corps-1942.jpg)

# Where skill and courage count

Signal Corps poster: a giant helmeted lineman-soldier stands over a burning village with a field telephone at his ear and a splice in his hand, telegraph poles at left. The oversized figure and the headline pair 'skill' and 'courage' with Signal Corps work at the front (glittering generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"Where SKILL and COURAGE Count"
SIGNAL CORPS
UNITED STATES ARMY
[signature: Schlaikjer 1942]
[imprint: (c) WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS]
[imprint: BROWN & BIGELOW, ST. PAUL, MINN., U.S.A.]
```

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