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title: In war as in peace - this country is no stronger than our individual loyalty to it
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/in-war-as-in-peace-individual-loyalty-1941/
description: 'Stylised poster: a gray single-engine aircraft with U.S. star roundels dives past mountains toward a road where a convoy of trucks is hit.'
section: Collection
---

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[![In war as in peace - this country is no stronger than our individual loyalty to it, 1941 US poster: Stylised poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/in-war-as-in-peace-individual-loyalty-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/in-war-as-in-peace-individual-loyalty-1941.jpg)

# In war as in peace - this country is no stronger than our individual loyalty to it

Stylised poster: a gray single-engine aircraft with U.S. star roundels dives past mountains toward a road where a convoy of trucks is hit, with an explosion at left, smoke and helmeted soldiers running or lying beside the road. Large slogan text sits at centre. The scene supplies the fear-appeal; the slogan about 'individual loyalty' is a broad, undefined appeal (glittering generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
In war as in peace—
this country is no
stronger than our
individual loyalty
to it.
[signature: C. R. MILLER]
[imprint: faint line at bottom edge, illegible]
```

[← In time of war you are liable to punishment by death or imprisonment for not more than thirty years](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/in-time-of-war-you-death-espionage-law-1941/) [In your hands: our homes, our country, our freedom. Work, fight, give to keep them safe →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/in-your-hands-putnam-county-defense-council-1941/)

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