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title: 'Let''em have it: buy extra bonds'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-em-have-it-buy-extra-bonds-4th-war-loan-1944/
description: 'Bond-drive poster: a helmeted soldier in the open-collar shirt hurls a grenade against a stormy sky and barbed wire.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Let'em have it: buy extra bonds, 1944 US poster: Bond-drive poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-em-have-it-buy-extra-bonds-4th-war-loan-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-em-have-it-buy-extra-bonds-4th-war-loan-1944.jpg)

# Let'em have it: buy extra bonds

Bond-drive poster: a helmeted soldier in the open-collar shirt hurls a grenade against a stormy sky and barbed wire, with 'Let'em have it' above and 'Buy extra bonds' below. The transfer is the soldier's action carried onto the purchase; the badge 'We bought extra war bonds' sets the purchase as something others have already done.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
LET'EM HAVE IT
WE BOUGHT EXTRA WAR BONDS
4TH WAR LOAN
BUY
EXTRA BONDS
[signature:] B. Perlin '43
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943 -O- [illegible]
OFFICIAL U.S. TREASURY POSTER
[imprint:] [illegible]
```

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