Content note: A pencil cartoon of caricatured Axis leaders, including a Hitler figure, embracing on a rock while swords labelled as war loan drives point at them, with another caricatured figure raising his arms in water, as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"Back the Attack with Bonds!!"
A pencil drawing shows three large swords labelled First, Second and Third War Loan Drive pointing at caricatured figures of Hitler and a second Axis leader clinging to each other on a rock, with a third caricatured figure raising his arms in water. The technique is name-calling by caricature of the enemy leaders, with the bond drives drawn as weapons aimed at them.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Alston)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 208, Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort (NAID 535594), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-131 (NAID 535644).
Text on the object
FIRST WAR LOAN DRIVE SECOND WAR LOAN DRIVE THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE "BACK THE ATTACK WITH BONDS!!" Alston OWI
