Content note: Painted portrait of a soldier with a blood-stained head bandage and blood-spotted uniform. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Doing all you can, brother?
War bond poster: a close portrait of a soldier with a blood-stained head bandage and dirty, stained shirt against a dark sky and a bare tree on a battlefield. The quoted question 'Doing all you can, brother?' is put to the viewer in his voice, above the slogan 'Buy War Bonds'. The wounded serviceman asks the civilian for a purchase, an emotional appeal tied to personal obligation.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division (artist Robert Sloan)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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 (artist Robert Sloan). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-641 (NAID 514119).
Text on the object
"Doing all you can, brother?" BUY WAR BONDS [signature:] Robert Sloan [imprint:] U.S. Government Printing Office : 1943-O-502782
