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title: 'Join the club: A stamp a day for the man who''s away'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/join-the-club-stamp-a-day-1943/
description: Long banner with a grinning helmeted soldier at left and a smiling Navy sailor at right, between red stripes and blue stars.
section: Collection
---

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[![Join the club: A stamp a day for the man who's away, 1943 US poster: Long banner with a grinning helmeted soldier at left](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-the-club-stamp-a-day-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-the-club-stamp-a-day-1943.jpg)

# Join the club: A stamp a day for the man who's away

Long banner with a grinning helmeted soldier at left and a smiling Navy sailor at right, between red stripes and blue stars. 'Join the Club' is a bandwagon appeal to join other buyers, and the two servicemen's portraits stand for 'the man who's away'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Join the Club
A Stamp a Day for the Man Who's Away
U.S. NAVY
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1943-O-[illegible] WSM 725
```

[← Joe Dope says, Why bother to clean up a small spot of spilled gasolene?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/joe-dope-spilled-gasoline-1943/) ['Join us in a victory job' (Australian Department of National Service) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/join-us-in-a-victory-job-australia-1943/)

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