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title: 'Victory Loan: Buy your extra bonds here'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victory-loan-buy-your-extra-bonds-here-1945/
description: 'Bond-sales poster: a red, white and blue torch with laurel branches and a ''Victory Loan'' banner above the line ''Buy your extra bonds - here''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Victory Loan: Buy your extra bonds here, 1945 US poster: Bond-sales poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/victory-loan-buy-your-extra-bonds-here-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/victory-loan-buy-your-extra-bonds-here-1945.jpg)

# Victory Loan: Buy your extra bonds here

Bond-sales poster: a red, white and blue torch with laurel branches and a 'Victory Loan' banner above the line 'Buy your extra bonds - here'. The torch and laurel stand for victory and honour without any stated fact, and the wording presents purchase as the expected act at the point of sale. The poster carries no figures or argument.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
VICTORY
LOAN
BUY YOUR EXTRA
BONDS - HERE
OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER
[imprint: small print at lower left and a code at lower right, illegible]
```

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