Description
Three color 9 1/2″ x 12″ ad that talks about the Oerlikon 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons that were one of the items that Pontiac produced during the war. The ad has a drawing of what you would see if you were looking through the gun sights of one of these guns at the planes that you were responsible for protecting your ship from. The ad headline gives the slogan that was used by Pontiac during the war, “Pontiac – Building Fast and Building Well…for Liberty”. The text describes the moments leading up to the enemy encounter and what the action was like as you fired what Pontiac was making instead of your family car. It admits that Pontiac began to produce these “about a year before Pearl Harbor” which has helped Pontiac to improve different aspects of the operation and to make them less expensive to produce.
Source: December 20, 1943 Life magazine.
