Reach your boy overseas by V-mail
Home-front poster promoting V-mail letter forms: a helmeted soldier's face beside the word 'mail' drawn as a strip of microfilm, with the claim 'Easy to use, surest, fastest, and most patriotic'. The tell is the stacked superlatives and the link of a postal product to patriotism.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (V-Mail service), artist Schlaikjer
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- 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)
U.S. Government. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1613 (NAID 515278).
Text on the object
Reach Your Boy OVERSEAS by mail the letters that travel on film EASY TO USE SUREST— FASTEST— and MOST PATRIOTIC Your Stationer and Post Office have V...—MAIL LETTER FORMS [signature: SCHLAIKJER] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942—O—486595]
