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title: 'Remember! Don Winslow says: Remember your duty to America'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/appreciate-america-remember-don-winslow-1941/
description: A comic-strip naval officer, Don Winslow, in cap and tie, with three stars labelled The Maine, Pearl Harbor and Wake Island showing ships burning and gun
section: Collection
---

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# Remember! Don Winslow says: Remember your duty to America

A comic-strip naval officer, Don Winslow, in cap and tie, with three stars labelled The Maine, Pearl Harbor and Wake Island showing ships burning and gun crews. The tell is a fictional hero as speaker plus a chain of past attacks, used to prompt a sense of duty.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
APPRECIATE ★
AMERICA
REMEMBER!
THE MAINE
PEARL
HARBOR
WAKE ISLAND
DON WINSLOW
SAYS:
REMEMBER
YOUR DUTY TO
AMERICA"
[signature:] I. A. Beroth [approximate reading]
RED FOR COURAGE
WHITE FOR HONOR
BLUE FOR JUSTICE
[imprint:] COPYRIGHT, 1941, APPRECIATE AMERICA INC., 130 NO. WELLS ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
```

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