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 Bandwagon

Date: 1942
Period: Second World War
Made by: U.S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.C.
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Military
Regime: Roosevelt Administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Recruit
Theme: War and the military
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. Marine Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1267 (NAID 514873).

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.