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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division (B. Perlin, artist)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division (B. Perlin, artist). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1253 (NAID 514859).
Text on the object
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]
