--- title: Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americans-will-always-fight-for-liberty-1943/ description: Ragged Continental soldiers of '1778' under a starred flag stand beside helmeted GIs of '1943' marching past, over the line 'Americans will always fight… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/americans-will-always-fight-for-liberty-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/americans-will-always-fight-for-liberty-1943.jpg) # Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty Ragged Continental soldiers of '1778' under a starred flag stand beside helmeted GIs of '1943' marching past, over the line 'Americans will always fight for liberty,' with 'always' underlined. The Revolutionary War's prestige is transferred to the present war, and 'liberty' is offered as the aim of both without saying what either war was about. - **Date:** 1943 - **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii) - **Made by:** U.S. Office of War Information (OWI Poster No. 26; artist Bernard Perlin) - **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america) - **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Roosevelt Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=roosevelt-administration) - **Leader:** [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=franklin-d-roosevelt) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front) - **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii) - **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) - **Regime:** [Roosevelt administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/roosevelt-administration/) - **Leader:** [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/roosevelt-administration/#franklin-d-roosevelt) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/91784917/), retrieved September 27, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (U.S. government work; LOC: no known restrictions on publication) Bernard Perlin for the U.S. Office of War Information, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmscd-05268. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 1778 1943 AMERICANS will always fight for liberty [illegible — small printer's credit line, bottom center] ``` The small credit line at the bottom (typical of OWI posters, e.g. an 'OWI Poster No. ___' line with a Division of Public Inquiries address) is too low-resolution in this service JPEG to transcribe with confidence, so it is marked illegible rather than reconstructed from other OWI posters' boilerplate. 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