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title: Celebrate the 4th, buy extra war bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/celebrate-the-4th-buy-extra-bonds-1944/
description: 'War-bond poster in red and white: a large numeral 4 holds a caricatured Japanese soldier, drawn with round glasses, bared teeth and a star-badge cap.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime caricature of a Japanese soldier with exaggerated glasses and teeth, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Celebrate the 4th, buy extra war bonds, 1944 US poster: War-bond poster in red and white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/celebrate-the-4th-buy-extra-bonds-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/celebrate-the-4th-buy-extra-bonds-1944.jpg)

# Celebrate the 4th, buy extra war bonds

War-bond poster in red and white: a large numeral 4 holds a caricatured Japanese soldier, drawn with round glasses, bared teeth and a star-badge cap, squeezed through it and sweating, with boots kicking out below. 'Celebrate the 4th' plays on the Fourth War Loan; the enemy is shown as a grotesque caricature (name-calling) and in distress.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CELEBRATE THE 4TH
BUY EXTRA
WAR BONDS
[signature:] J.D. WHITE USNR
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 O - 577119
```

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