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Your Job Is Your Gun
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Poster featuring illustrations of a worker chasing caricatures of a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) and Adolf Hitler, and a soldier firing a machine gun. Includes the text: "Your job is your gun give the enemy hell!" The advertisement was printed for the Labor-Management Production Drive Committee by the Magill-Weinsheimer Company of Chicago.
1942
International Harvester Company
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W01490I
WHi 27682
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