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title: Our hearts, heads and hands are united in one mighty aim - Victory for the American way
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-hearts-heads-and-hands-think-american-1941/
description: Large 48-star flag above a photographic cutout crowd of workers, a sailor and two Marines standing together, with the line 'Our hearts.
section: Collection
---

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[![Our hearts, heads and hands are united in one mighty aim - Victory for the American way, 1941 US poster: Large 48-star flag](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-hearts-heads-and-hands-think-american-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-hearts-heads-and-hands-think-american-1941.jpg)

# Our hearts, heads and hands are united in one mighty aim - Victory for the American way

Large 48-star flag above a photographic cutout crowd of workers, a sailor and two Marines standing together, with the line 'Our hearts, heads and hands are united in one mighty aim'. The tell is the unity claim: a mixed crowd under the flag is shown as one will, and 'the American Way' is left undefined.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Our hearts, heads and hands
are united in one mighty aim-
Victory for the American Way.
[imprint:] THINKAMERICAN REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. No. 156 - COPYRIGHT, - KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y. THINKAMERICAN INSTITUTE
[imprint:] PRIZE-WINNING ILLUSTRATION COURTESY MODERN INDUSTRY MAGAZINE
```

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