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title: Your Ammunition. Don't Waste It!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-ammunition-dont-waste-it-owi-71-1943/
description: A rifleman in helmet and pack lies prone on a yellow field above a white panel listing typewriters, pencils, pens, paper clips, rubber bands.
section: Collection
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[![Your Ammunition. Don't Waste It!, 1943 US poster: A rifleman in helmet and pack lies prone on a yellow field above a white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-ammunition-dont-waste-it-owi-71-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-ammunition-dont-waste-it-owi-71-1943.jpg)

# Your Ammunition. Don't Waste It!

A rifleman in helmet and pack lies prone on a yellow field above a white panel listing typewriters, pencils, pens, paper clips, rubber bands, adding machines, staplers and paper. The headline calls these office supplies 'your ammunition', so the soldier's weapon is transferred onto everyday office items, aimed at government and business office workers.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
YOUR
AMMUNITION
Typewriters, pencils, pens,
paper clips, rubber bands,
adding machines, staplers,
paper, carbon paper, etc.
DON'T WASTE IT!
OWI Poster No. 71
Treasury-Procurement Conservation Program
[signature: illegible, below the soldier]
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office : 1943 - O - 534708 (last digits uncertain)]
```

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