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title: Hasten the Homecoming
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hasten-the-homecoming-victory-bonds-1945/
description: Victory Bonds poster showing a soldier with a kit bag standing in a tenement backyard while neighbours wave from steps, windows, a tree and a roof.
section: Collection
---

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[![Hasten the Homecoming, 1945 US poster: Victory Bonds poster showing a soldier with a kit bag standing in a tenement backyard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hasten-the-homecoming-victory-bonds-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hasten-the-homecoming-victory-bonds-1945.jpg)

# Hasten the Homecoming

Victory Bonds poster showing a soldier with a kit bag standing in a tenement backyard while neighbours wave from steps, windows, a tree and a roof, with service flags in the windows. The headline reads 'Hasten the Homecoming' and the base line 'Buy Victory Bonds'. The technique is plain-folks warmth: an ordinary street welcomes one man home, tying bond buying to that return.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Hasten the Homecoming
BUY VICTORY BONDS
[imprint: FROM SATURDAY EVENING POST COVER PAINTING BY NORMAN ROCKWELL (small print, partly illegible)]
```

[← Harvest war crops, the Women's Land Army of the U.S. Crop Corps](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harvest-war-crops-womens-land-army-1945/) [Small Figures Assembling a Swastika-Marked Mechanical Giant (untitled) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hitler-mussolini-puppet-masters-1945/)

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