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
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- United War Work Campaign
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
United War Work Campaign. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-174.
Text on the object
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.
