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title: Plot Your Future Course - Buy Victory Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-plot-your-future-course-victory-bonds-1939/
description: A naval officer takes a sextant sight while a rating with an 'H.M.C.S.' cap tally writes in a notebook, a warship behind them.
section: Collection
---

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# Plot Your Future Course - Buy Victory Bonds

A naval officer takes a sextant sight while a rating with an 'H.M.C.S.' cap tally writes in a notebook, a warship behind them, under 'Plot your future course' and 'Buy Victory Bonds'. The tell is the navy's navigation imagery borrowed as a metaphor for personal finance.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
PLOT YOUR FUTURE COURSE

BUY VICTORY BONDS

[cap tally:] H.M.C.S.
```

[← Pledge Your Savings to Hasten Victory - Buy War Savings Certificates Regularly!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-pledge-your-savings-to-hasten-victory-1939/) [Pointed at the Heart of Berlin - Drive It Home! Buy Victory Bonds →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-pointed-at-the-heart-of-berlin-victory-bonds-1939/)

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