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title: Hey Gang! Keep on licking war savings stamps - they're full of Vitamin V
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hey-gang-war-savings-stamps-1943/
description: 'Two-panel sheet. Right: a smiling freckled boy on black with the headline ''Hey Gang! Tagged by technique, with source and rights.'
section: Collection
---

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# Hey Gang! Keep on licking war savings stamps - they're full of Vitamin V

Two-panel sheet. Right: a smiling freckled boy on black with the headline 'Hey Gang! keep on licking war savings stamps - they're full of Vitamin V', the V in red. Left: a Schools-at-War Jeep Campaign sheet pricing jeeps and a plane. The tell is the child-to-child voice and a vitamin joke attached to a savings purchase.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
HEY
GANG!
keep on licking
war savings stamps
-they're full of
VITAMIN "V"
[signature:] FRANKLIN ARBUCKLE '43
EXACT REPRODUCTION OF A POSTER DESIGNED BY
THE CANADIAN NATIONAL WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE

[left panel, printed sideways]
FLYING JEEP, OR "GRASSHOPPER"
$3,000
THE ORIGINAL JEEP
$1,165
AMPHIBIAN JEEP, OR "QUACK"
$2,090
The New Triple-Threat
SCHOOLS-AT-WAR
JEEP CAMPAIGN
HELP SEND OUR MEN
20,000 JEEPS
BY DECEMBER 7th
Plan a campaign to finance one or more Jeeps by selling War Stamps and Bonds. Start any time. Set a challenging goal and try to beat it. (Be a triple-threat school and finance one of each kind!) On December 7th, certify your success to your State War Finance Chairman who will issue a Treasury Citation in the name of your school or class.
[signature:] REINHARDT
[imprint:] [illegible]
```

[← He's fighting for you. Join the club: a stamp a day for the man who's away](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hes-fighting-for-you-join-the-club-1943/) [Hey, Joe - our planes! Keep 'em coming! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hey-joe-our-planes-keep-em-coming-1943/)

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