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I appreciate good phallic symbols as much as the next man, but as an artilleryman, I must protest. The shells of the large artillery pieces are not cartridges. The shell goes in first, and then, you insert the charge which is either cased or consists of simply bags of gunpowder. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Army_WWII_field_artillery.jpg
And BTW, that cartridge would weigh a hundred kilos. No one would handle it alone.
Also, that shape looks more like a round for some kind of giant rifle, than the smoother form of a shell.
And he’d be getting a serious ear-bashing for even tilting it nose-down, however slight the tilt.
Commenters take interest in the darndest things. As it happens, this panel was modeled after a genuine period Navy recruiting poster: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Man_the_guns-Join_the_Navy%22_-_NARA_-_513519.tif
A bit of beefcake, eh?
The crane boom is missing support cables and has a rather unhealthy to structural integrity notch in its girder.
https://burbankinfocus.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A1441
I think that notch might actually be a point of articulation.
Which would be more obvious if the missing support cables were present.