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title: Let's go. Help "fire that last shot" with the U.S. Marines
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-go-fire-that-last-shot-us-marines-1942/
description: Horizontal Marine Corps recruiting card showing a Marine in helmet and puttees striding forward with a bayoneted rifle.
section: Collection
---

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[![Let's go. Help "fire that last shot" with the U.S. Marines, 1942 US poster: Horizontal Marine Corps recruiting card showing](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-go-fire-that-last-shot-us-marines-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-go-fire-that-last-shot-us-marines-1942.jpg)

# Let's go. Help "fire that last shot" with the U.S. Marines

Horizontal Marine Corps recruiting card showing a Marine in helmet and puttees striding forward with a bayoneted rifle, with 'Let's Go' in red script and an invitation to 'help fire that last shot' with the Marines, plus a Washington street address. The slogan frames enlistment as joining the final act of the fight (bandwagon, with a glittering phrase).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Let's Go~
HELP "FIRE THAT LAST SHOT"
with the
U.S.MARINES
949 9th STREET, N. W.  ✤  WASHINGTON, D. C.
[signature:] mark at lower centre, illegible
[imprint:] M.C.P.R. 90732 1-24-42 20M.  434 PB
```

The imprint at lower left is very small; its digits are read as best as possible.

[← Let's go, everybody! Keep 'em firing!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-go-everybody-keep-em-firing-oldsmobile-1942/) [Let's go! Volunteer for victory with the U.S. Marines →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-go-volunteer-for-victory-us-marines-1942/)

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