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title: Victory Is a Question of Stamina. Send the Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar, the Fuel for Fighters
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victory-is-a-question-of-stamina-1917/
description: Two helmeted American infantrymen with bayoneted rifles charge through snow under a stormy sky; the text below says victory is a question of stamina
section: Collection
---

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[![Victory Is a Question of Stamina. Send the Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar, the Fuel for Fighters, 1917 US poster: Two helmeted](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/victory-is-a-question-of-stamina-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/victory-is-a-question-of-stamina-1917.jpg)

# Victory Is a Question of Stamina. Send the Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar, the Fuel for Fighters

Two helmeted American infantrymen with bayoneted rifles charge through snow under a stormy sky; the text below says victory is a question of stamina and asks for wheat, meat, fats and sugar as 'the fuel for fighters.' The tell of transfer is the movement from the soldiers' effort to the viewer's pantry: the prestige of the charge is attached to food shipments.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Victory is a
Question of Stamina
Send - the Wheat
Meat . Fats . Sugar
the fuel for Fighters
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
[tiny imprint line at lower right, as read: LATHAM LITHO & PTG CO BROOKLYN N.Y.]
```

Artist signature in the image at right, as read: 'Harvey Dunn 1917'. The tiny imprint line at the foot is only partly legible and is given as read.

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