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title: Blueprint for Victory
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/blueprint-for-victory-1942/
description: Poster showing a woman in a cap marked with a V, holding a blue sheet reading GUNS PLANES TANKS SHIPS before smoking factory chimneys.
section: Collection
---

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[![Blueprint for Victory, 1942 US poster: Poster showing a woman in a cap marked with a V, holding a blue sheet reading GUNS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/blueprint-for-victory-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/blueprint-for-victory-1942.jpg)

# Blueprint for Victory

Poster showing a woman in a cap marked with a V, holding a blue sheet reading GUNS PLANES TANKS SHIPS before smoking factory chimneys. The caption names WAVES, WAACS and workers together as all 'with us to win' (bandwagon), and the V cap and uniform-style dress link war work to the services (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
BLUEPRINT for VICTORY
GUNS
PLANES
TANKS
SHIPS
WAVES...WAACS...WORKERS
THEY'RE ALL WITH US TO WIN!
[signature: PACKER]
[imprint: PRINTED IN U.S.A.]
[imprint: Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc.]
```

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