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title: 'Let''s fly this flag by New Year''s: everybody at least 10% in war bonds'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-fly-this-flag-by-new-years-treasury-1942/
description: A waving dark flag carries a white minuteman silhouette ringed by stars, with a target-style badge reading 'Everybody at least 10%' and the words 'In war
section: Collection
---

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[![Let's fly this flag by New Year's: everybody at least 10% in war bonds, 1942 US poster: A waving dark flag carries a white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-fly-this-flag-by-new-years-treasury-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-fly-this-flag-by-new-years-treasury-1942.jpg)

# Let's fly this flag by New Year's: everybody at least 10% in war bonds

A waving dark flag carries a white minuteman silhouette ringed by stars, with a target-style badge reading 'Everybody at least 10%' and the words 'In war bonds'. A second headline line adds a deadline, 'by New Year's'. The pitch is a shared quota for everyone (bandwagon), set beside a Revolutionary-era soldier figure (transfer). This is a variant of the 'Let's fly this flag' design with the added deadline line.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
LET'S FLY THIS FLAG
BY NEW YEAR'S

EVERYBODY
AT LEAST
10%

IN WAR BONDS

[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—490186   WSS 551-A
```

[← Let's all fight: buy war bonds (colour slide)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-all-fight-buy-war-bonds-colour-slide-1942/) [Let's get in and pitch to smash the son-of-a-sun →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-get-in-and-pitch-oldsmobile-1942/)

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