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title: Fighting Dollars for Fighting Men!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fighting-dollars-for-fighting-men-1941/
description: A smiling man in a work cap and overalls holds up a Postal Savings Plan defense savings stamp card, above a red mass of marching helmeted infantry
section: Collection
---

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[![Fighting Dollars for Fighting Men!, 1941 US poster: A smiling man in a work cap and overalls holds up a Postal Savings Plan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fighting-dollars-for-fighting-men-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/fighting-dollars-for-fighting-men-1941.jpg)

# Fighting Dollars for Fighting Men!

A smiling man in a work cap and overalls holds up a Postal Savings Plan defense savings stamp card, above a red mass of marching helmeted infantry and a blue shield reading 'Buy U.S. Defense Bonds, Stamps'. The tell is the ordinary worker as the buyer and the massed marching soldiers behind him, which pair a purchase with the men under arms. A wide blank band at the bottom was left for local overprinting.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FIGHTING DOLLARS FOR FIGHTING MEN !
Buy U.S. DEFENSE BONDS * STAMPS
[pictured card] POSTAL SAVINGS PLAN for the Purchase of UNITED STATES DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS
[signature: CHAS. D. JARRETT]
[imprint: LITHO. IN U.S.A.]
[pencil annotation at right edge: U.S. War Savings]
```

[← 'Feeding 45 Millions: Food Convoy' (British Ministry of Information poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/feeding-45-millions-food-convoy-1941/) [Fighting Fish and Fighting Men →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fighting-fish-and-fighting-men-1941/)

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