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1942

United States. War Production Board Bureau of Industrial Conservation

Poster

Title: Your scrap brought it down

Government Printing Office # O-471454. Conservation Poster by Zudor showing showing a German Heinkel HE-111 bomber spinning out of control engulfed by fire streaming from both engines; enemy bomber succumbed to bullets or flak made from recycled scrap metal. Caption reads: "Give to a collector, salvage depot or sell to a dealer, keep scrapping rubber, metal and rags."

GLC09520.05

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