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Collection Structure Poster collection >  Suppose Nazis destroy 80,000 American tanks. It takes approximately 15 tons of scrap to build one medium tank. 80,000 tanks would require 1,200,000 tons of scrap. It would be unbelieveable and fantastic. Yet every day we delay getting in every available pound of iron and steel scrap we are helping to make this supposition come true. Only we will be the ones who destroyed the tanks not the Nazis. We "destroyed" them even ... [Verso:] Suppose Nazis destroy ...
Item Title Suppose Nazis destroy 80,000 American tanks. It takes approximately 15 tons of scrap to build one medium tank. 80,000 tanks would require 1,200,000 tons of scrap. It would be unbelieveable and fantastic. Yet every day we delay getting in every available pound of iron and steel scrap we are helping to make this supposition come true. Only we will be the ones who destroyed the tanks not the Nazis. We "destroyed" them even ... [Verso:] Suppose Nazis destroy ...
Collection Title Poster collection
Date Created 1942
Description Drawing of Nazi soldier standing by smoking American tanks. Verso: Photographs of ads for the salvage drive. Double-sided.
Subject(s) Supplies and stores Tank warfare Salvage (Waste, etc.) Germany Soldiers Social aspects Economic aspects Scrap metals World War, 1939-1945 Metals United States Tanks (Military science) Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Country of Origin United States
Dimensions Overall: 36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
Format Poster
Medium political posters
Color color
Color color
Hoover ID Poster US 6176
Record Number XX343.30252
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt829015km
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