Autocar Tankers Aweigh

GLC09654.33

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GLC#
GLC09654.33-View header record
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
1941-1945
Author/Creator
Autocar
Title
Tankers Aweigh
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 poster Height: 58.3 cm, Width: 43.1 cm
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

One poster entitled "Tankers Aweigh" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features a scene of soldiers and airmen using an Autocar tanker to refuel a bomber. There are two planes with smoke trailing from them and other planes flying around them in the background. The poster promotes the vehicles Autocar is suppling to the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corp. The poster reads in part, "keep your pledge to the U.S. Truck Conservation Corps. Your trucks are your own, but their life belongs to the Nation." It also has the title of the poster in pencil on the back.

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