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title: On to Victory with the U.S. Marines
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/on-to-victory-with-the-us-marines-1941/
description: 'Marine Corps recruiting poster in a stylised dark blue and magenta palette: two angled gun barrels form a large V above a silhouetted gun crew.'
section: Collection
---

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[![On to Victory with the U.S. Marines, 1941 US poster: Marine Corps recruiting poster in a stylised dark blue and magenta](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/on-to-victory-with-the-us-marines-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/on-to-victory-with-the-us-marines-1941.jpg)

# On to Victory with the U.S. Marines

Marine Corps recruiting poster in a stylised dark blue and magenta palette: two angled gun barrels form a large V above a silhouetted gun crew, with the lines 'On to Victory with the U.S. Marines'. The V shape borrows the victory sign, and 'victory' is stated as a bare goal (glittering-generalities). The technique is faint beyond that.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ON TO
VICTORY
with the
U.S. MARINES
[imprint:] [illegible] 433 PB
```

[← On the job](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/on-the-job-american-railroads-1941/) [On with the Job! Get It Done the Safe and Sure Way →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/on-with-the-job-get-it-done-safe-sure-way-1941/)

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