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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- "Victory-Builders" Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Gender and suffrage, Labor
- 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 and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-495 (NAID 513975).
Text on the object
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.]
