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title: Attack Attack Attack - Buy War Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/attack-attack-attack-buy-war-bonds-1942/
description: 'War-bond poster: two infantrymen with bayoneted rifles charge up a beach past a machine gunner and a landed tank.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Attack Attack Attack - Buy War Bonds, 1942 US poster: War-bond poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/attack-attack-attack-buy-war-bonds-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/attack-attack-attack-buy-war-bonds-1942.jpg)

# Attack Attack Attack - Buy War Bonds

War-bond poster: two infantrymen with bayoneted rifles charge up a beach past a machine gunner and a landed tank, while formations of aircraft fill the sky and the words ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK run across it. The bond purchase is tied to the assault itself (transfer): the buyer is invited to share in the soldiers' action.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK
BUY WAR BONDS
[signature:] Ferdinand Warren 42
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE · 1942 · O-497775  WWN 497-B
```

[← Ask the women and children whom Hitler is starving whether rationing is too great a "sacrifice"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ask-the-women-and-children-whom-hitler-is-starving-1942/) [Attack Now! Your Army needs More Copper-Zinc-Lead for More tanks →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/attack-now-copper-zinc-lead-1942/)

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