Content note: Shows the Axis powers drawn as a hairy, clawed, blood-dripping animal arm, with a swastika and Rising Sun flag. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Stop this grab - buy bonds
War bond poster: a sleeve marked WAR BONDS with a U.S. flag cuff ends in a fist gripping the wrist of a hairy, clawed, blood-dripping arm that comes from a sleeve with a swastika badge and a Rising Sun cuff, reaching toward a globe labelled CIVILIZATION. Beneath the headline STOP THIS GRAB, the Axis powers are drawn as a beast's claw, and the bond purchase is the grip that holds it.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War bond campaign, Louis R. Samish (artist)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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)
War bond campaign. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1821 (NAID 515501).
Text on the object
STOP THIS GRAB WAR BONDS US CIVILIZATION BUY BONDS [signature: L. R. Samish] Dedicated to Victory - Louis R. Samish, Artist; Alex. Dulfer Printing and Lithographing Co. and Everett Pulp & Paper Co. Producers (Copyright applied for)
