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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Treasury-Procurement Conservation Program (OWI Poster No. 71); artist signed (script, illegible)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- 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)
Treasury-Procurement Conservation Program (OWI Poster No. 71). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-387 (NAID 513839).
Text on the object
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)]
