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title: For war service, seeing it through! Are you?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/for-war-service-seeing-it-through-are-you-1945/
description: A painted scene of an Army officer pinning a ribbon on a woman in a red jacket, watched by an older man and a man in a suit with a ribbon and badge.
section: Collection
---

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# For war service, seeing it through! Are you?

A painted scene of an Army officer pinning a ribbon on a woman in a red jacket, watched by an older man and a man in a suit with a ribbon and badge, in front of an American flag. Below, a chart of nine service ribbons sits above the words 'SEEING IT THROUGH! are you?'. The tell is transfer of the honour of military decoration to civilian war workers, closed with a direct question.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FOR WAR SERVICE
U.S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER

EUROPEAN-AFRICAN MIDDLE-EASTERN THEATRE
ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATRE
AMERICAN THEATRE
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF WAR (25 Years)
EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE....Gold
MERITORIOUS SERVICE...Silver
(Attachment)
GENERAL STAFF (10 Years)
ARMY GROUND FORCES
ARMY AIR FORCES
ARMY SERVICE FORCES

SEEING IT THROUGH!
are you?

[imprint:] ISD No. 221
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945-O-638575
```

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