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title: Sons, brothers, husbands, pals
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sons-brothers-husbands-pals-1941/
description: 'Industrial-morale poster: a press photograph of U.S. Marines running through surf from a landing craft sits above a red panel reading ''Sons, brothers.'
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Photo caption uses the period term 'JAP-HELD' for Japanese forces, reproduced as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Sons, brothers, husbands, pals

Industrial-morale poster: a press photograph of U.S. Marines running through surf from a landing craft sits above a red panel reading 'Sons, brothers, husbands, pals'. The text tells workers that the men will win and return sooner if they stick to their jobs. The tell is transfer, using the combat photograph to give weight to a work-habit message, with kin words addressed as plain folks.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
U. S. MARINES ATTACKING JAP-HELD PACIFIC ISLAND
PRESS ASSOCIATION PHOTO

SONS, BROTHERS,
HUSBANDS, PALS—
they'll win and return much
sooner when you stick to
your job—and give it all
you've got

THINKAMERICAN
REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.
No. 163—COPYRIGHT,—KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y.
[circular mark:] THINKAMERICAN INSTITUTE
[mark in photo, lower left:] 603 [illegible]
```

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