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title: Every American Boy Should Enroll in the Victory Boys
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/every-american-boy-should-enroll-in-the-victory-boys-1918/
description: A boy in work clothes rests a hand on the shoulder of a helmeted soldier charging with a bayonet past barbed wire.
section: Collection
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[![Every American Boy Should Enroll in the Victory Boys, 1918 US poster: A boy in work clothes rests a hand on the shoulder](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/every-american-boy-should-enroll-in-the-victory-boys-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/every-american-boy-should-enroll-in-the-victory-boys-1918.jpg)

# Every American Boy Should Enroll in the Victory Boys

A boy in work clothes rests a hand on the shoulder of a helmeted soldier charging with a bayonet past barbed wire, under the line 'A million boys behind a million fighters.' An eagle sits above a red banner reading 'Victory Boys.' The tell is the pairing of the boy and the soldier as one team, with a numerical claim inviting every boy to join and earn money to give.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
A million boys behind
a million fighters

Every American Boy
Should Enroll in the

VICTORY BOYS

Earn and give to help keep our fighters happy

UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN-NOVEMBER 11 to 18

[imprint, partly legible: Rogers & Company, Chicago and New York]
```

A small monogram at the lower left is not transcribed.

[← Ersatzmittel-Ausstellung, Wien, 1918 (Exhibition of Substitute Materials, Vienna, 1918)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ersatzmittel-ausstellung-wien-1918/) [Every Girl Pulling for Victory: Victory Girls, United War Work Campaign →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/every-girl-pulling-for-victory-victory-girls-1918/)

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