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title: Back the Attack! Buy Extra Bonds, 5th War Loan
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/back-the-attack-buy-extra-bonds-5th-war-loan-1944/
description: 'Horizontal bond-drive sheet for the 5th War Loan: red script ''Back the Attack!'' above a blue band reading ''Buy ... EXTRA BONDS''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Back the Attack! Buy Extra Bonds, 5th War Loan, 1944 US poster: Horizontal bond-drive sheet for the 5th War Loan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/back-the-attack-buy-extra-bonds-5th-war-loan-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/back-the-attack-buy-extra-bonds-5th-war-loan-1944.jpg)

# Back the Attack! Buy Extra Bonds, 5th War Loan

Horizontal bond-drive sheet for the 5th War Loan: red script 'Back the Attack!' above a blue band reading 'Buy ... EXTRA BONDS', with a central emblem of a large letter V (with the Morse dot-dot-dot-dash) holding a silhouetted soldier and the words '5th War Loan'. The technique is transfer: the V-for-Victory sign and soldier silhouette lend the campaign's symbols to the purchase, with the slogan as a glittering generality.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Back the Attack!
Buy
5TH WAR LOAN
EXTRA BONDS
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-581633
[imprint:] WFD 909
```

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