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title: 'Produce for Victory: Thanks America'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/thanks-america-produce-for-victory-1942/
description: 'Colour photographic poster: a bearded airman in a sheepskin flying jacket against a blue sky, with a quotation in a British speaker''s voice thanking'
section: Collection
---

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# Produce for Victory: Thanks America

Colour photographic poster: a bearded airman in a sheepskin flying jacket against a blue sky, with a quotation in a British speaker's voice thanking America and promising to 'blast the blighters to pulp'. The unnamed speaker lends the production slogan an allied testimonial; the enemy is named only as 'blighters'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[credit line:] BRITISH PRESS SERVICE
"Thanks America! We British
held 'em off for a solid year.
Now, together we'll blast
the 'blighters' to pulp!"

PRODUCE FOR VICTORY!
[imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago
[imprint:] Lithographed in U.S.A. Form No. 27
```

[← Tell it to the Marines](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tell-it-to-the-marines-wake-island-1942/) ['The enemy listens. Your words are his weapons.' (Australian careless-talk poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-enemy-listens-your-words-are-his-weapons-australia-1942/)

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