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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Think American Institute (Kelly-Read & Co.)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military, Labor
- 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)
Think American Institute. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1482 (NAID 515147).
Text on the object
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
