--- title: 'On the offensive: Do more for victory in 1943!' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/on-the-offensive-victory-news-1943/ description: 'A photo-panel sheet on the November 1942 Allied landings in North Africa: a convoy, troops landing at Surcouf, soldiers in a landing craft.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. On the offensive: Do more for victory in 1943! [![On the offensive: Do more for victory in 1943!, 1943 US poster: A photo-panel sheet on the November 1942 Allied landings](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/on-the-offensive-victory-news-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/on-the-offensive-victory-news-1943.jpg) # On the offensive: Do more for victory in 1943! A photo-panel sheet on the November 1942 Allied landings in North Africa: a convoy, troops landing at Surcouf, soldiers in a landing craft, and an armoured car near Oran. A red text box tells the reader that production, war bonds and rationing are 'smashing at the enemy' and that 'the lives of America's fighting men' depend on what is given 'now'. It pairs a stakes appeal with photographs of the landings only. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 800 ship convoy—British and Ameri- can—heading for North Africa. ON THE OFFENSIVE Carrying the Stars and Stripes, our men swarm ashore at Surcouf. The war materials you produce, the war bonds you buy, the gasoline, oil and rubber you do without, your work and your sacrifices—all of these are now smashing at the enemy in Africa. Upon the quantity and quality of what you give them now depend the lives of America's fighting men! American soldiers set out for the landing at Arzeu, near Oran. An armored car advances on Oran. U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo. DO MORE FOR VICTORY IN 1943! VICTORY NEWS Vol. I, No. 3 PHOTO NEWS DISPLAY CORP., 15 EAST 40th STREET, N. Y. C. ``` [← Oil is ammunition! Oil workers are war workers!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/oil-is-ammunition-oil-workers-are-war-workers-1943/) [On the Same Team →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/on-the-same-team-waves-1943/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)