---
title: He Can't Forget Pearl Harbor - Can You? Buy Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/he-cant-forget-pearl-harbor-1944/
description: A blindfolded man in a hospital gown reaches out with both hands while a nurse steadies him, on a red field, under 'He can't forget Pearl Harbor - Can you?
section: Collection
---

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[![He Can't Forget Pearl Harbor - Can You? Buy Bonds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/he-cant-forget-pearl-harbor-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/he-cant-forget-pearl-harbor-1944.jpg)

# He Can't Forget Pearl Harbor - Can You? Buy Bonds

A blindfolded man in a hospital gown reaches out with both hands while a nurse steadies him, on a red field, under 'He can't forget Pearl Harbor - Can you? Buy bonds'. The poster pastes the visible cost of the 1941 attack onto the bond purchase; no enemy is drawn, and the guilt of the question does the selling.

## Text on the object

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

```
He CAN'T forget
Pearl Harbor - Can you?
BUY BONDS

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]
```

The imprint at the foot is too small to read in this scan. A small signature on the sleeve at right is not legible.

[← 'Denryoku wa senryoku!' (Electric Power Is Military Power!) home-front poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/electric-power-is-military-power-poster-1944/) [Wall inscription '1 keresztényér\[t\]! 100 zsidó' (1 Christian \[for\] 100 Jews), Hungary →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungary-1-keresztenyer-100-zsido-graffiti-1944/)

## Using the same techniques

- [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer)
- [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (Kushan Empire · 0130 · Transfer)
- [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (Kingdom of England · 1070 · Transfer, Card stacking)
- [Mughal gold coin of Jahangir, dated 1028 AH, with a bull inside a ring of sun rays](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jahangir-gold-zodiac-coin-sun-rays-1619/) (Mughal Empire · 1619 · Transfer)
- [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (Dutch Republic · 1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon)
- [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)