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title: Meat for strength to work and fight. Put part of every sale in War Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/meat-for-strength-war-bonds-1943/
description: Aerial photograph of a stockyard with rows of pens, a round inset photograph of a boy in a hat holding bond certificates beside a calf.
section: Collection
---

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[![Meat for strength to work and fight. Put part of every sale in War Bonds, 1943 US poster: Aerial photograph of a stockyard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/meat-for-strength-war-bonds-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/meat-for-strength-war-bonds-1943.jpg)

# Meat for strength to work and fight. Put part of every sale in War Bonds

Aerial photograph of a stockyard with rows of pens, a round inset photograph of a boy in a hat holding bond certificates beside a calf, and a red arrow reading 'Meat for strength to work and fight'. The sheet asks sellers of livestock to put part of each sale into War Bonds. The farm boy stands for ordinary producers (plain-folks) and the Minuteman figure lends the bond brand its history (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
MEAT for
STRENGTH
to WORK and FIGHT
Put part of every sale in
WAR BONDS
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-537321]
```

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