Buy your bonds here. Back the attack! 5th War Loan
Bond-sales counter poster: a Minuteman silhouette stands inside a large letter V, with the Morse 'V' signal (three dots, a dash) beside it and the text '5th War Loan'. Stars scatter around the headline 'BUY YOUR BONDS HERE', closed with 'Back the Attack!'. The tell is the transfer of the Revolutionary-era soldier and the V-for-victory sign onto bond buying.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division (printed by U.S. Government Printing Office)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- 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 and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1709 (NAID 515380).
Text on the object
BUY YOUR BONDS HERE 5TH WAR LOAN Back the Attack! [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-581630 WFD 912 [handwritten pencil note, lower left, not part of the print:] Classify War Bonds -
