Resource Type

Learn to recognize these vehicles : heavy, medium, and light armored cars.

Chart features black & white silhouette drawings of front and profile views of heavy, medium, and light armored cars. Included are American, British, Russian, German, Italian, and Japanese armored cars. A purple band at the bottom includes tips for identification.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. Army. Services of Supply. Special Service Division.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Let's fly this flag: everybody at least 10% in war bonds.

A blue flag (with white silhouette of Concord Minute Man, 12 white stars circling him) flies on a gold pole. A red, white, and blue target is to the bottom left of the flag, containing the text, "Everybody at least 10%".
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. Department of the Treasury.
System: The UNT Digital Library

A half-filled stamp album is like a half-equipped soldier.

Long banner with text in the middle and images on the left and right sides. On the left side is a soldier holding a "missing" gun. On the right side is an image of a stamp album.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. War Savings Staff.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Homemaker's war guide.

Chart with columns providing illustrated suggestions for supporting the war effort. Colors used are red, blue, black/gray and white. Topics include conserving, storing, and reusing food, textiles, rubber, and metals, and instructions for taking protective measures in case of attack, and for participating in wartime community organizations. Centered at top of the poster is a graphic image representing women in various work and military uniforms, standing with airplanes, ambulances, a car, and a tank. The "homemaker" is highlighted at center and is represented wearing an apron, holding a saucepan, standing inside a red house.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Help him ... help yourself ... : for victory, at least 10% of your pay every payday.

Color poster features black and white photographs, with large arrows containing captions pointing to each photo. The captions explain the benefits of war bonds. One photograph is of a soldier in a combat uniform, holding a rifle. The other photograph is of a man in a work shirt, doing mechanical work.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

If you tell where they're going-- they may never get there! : don't talk about troop movements!

Black and white image of soldiers boarding a ship.
Date: 1943
Creator: United States. War Department.
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Keep 'em flying!"

Small banner has a border along the top and bottom margins in a red, white, and blue "stars and stripes" design. In the middle is a slogan in blue: "Keep 'Em Flying!"
Date: 1941
Creator: United States. Army. Recruiting Service.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Till we meet again : buy war bonds.

A smiling soldier in a khaki uniform and cap waves from a porthole.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
System: The UNT Digital Library

Till we meet again: buy war bonds.

A smiling soldier in a khaki uniform and cap waves from a porthole.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
System: The UNT Digital Library

A careless word-- : --a needless sinking.

A ship at sea burns in the background while sailors row away in a life boat. Some are wearing life vests and some appear to be wounded.
Date: 1942
Creator: Fischer, Anton Otto, 1882-1962
System: The UNT Digital Library

The battle-wise infantryman -- is careful of what he says or writes : how about you?

Color poster of head and shoulders of a helmeted Army soldier holding a rifle and looking toward the viewer. The background is a green color.
Date: 1944
Creator: Schlaikjer, Jes Wilhelm, 1897-1982
System: The UNT Digital Library

Someone talked!

A man's head and arm are seen barely above black water. The man looks and points toward the viewer.
Date: 1942
Creator: Siebel, Frederick
System: The UNT Digital Library

U.S. Army : guardian of the colors.

Color image of four soldiers in army uniforms and helmets. Two in center hold flags (one U.S. flag and one with eagle crest). Two outside soldiers hold rifles.
Date: 1940
Creator: Woodburn, Tom B.
System: The UNT Digital Library

A battery of Britain's giant coastal-defence guns mounted on railway trucks.

Poster is a color drawing of a large military gun mounted on a train truck. The gun is being fired, and similar guns are seen firing in the distance. Small figures of soldiers can be seen covering their ears. The background is a brightly colored yellow and orange sky.
Date: unknown
Creator: Davies, Roland.
System: The UNT Digital Library

I want you for the U.S. Army : enlist now.

Uncle Sam points at the viewer. Half-length portrait of Uncle Sam, pointing at the viewer as part of the United States government effort to recruit soldiers.
Date: 1941
Creator: Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960
System: The UNT Digital Library

--We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-- : remember Dec. 7th!

A tattered, torn U.S. flag flies at half-staff as dark smoke billows in the background.
Date: 1942
Creator: Saalburg, Allen Russell, 1899-1987.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Get the Jap and get it over! : work where you're needed.

Bullet-ridden and tattered Japanese and German flags (of World-War II era) fly on a bamboo pole. Background is in shades of green.
Date: 1945
Creator: Saalburg, Allen Russell, 1899-1987.
System: The UNT Digital Library

1778, 1943 : Americans will always fight for liberty.

U.S. soldiers in helmets and coats march forward on snow, looking back in review at colonial militiamen with rifles, some in torn clothing or bloody bandages. A badge of the U.S. flag is displayed prominently on the shoulder of the soldier nearest the viewer.
Date: 1943
Creator: Perlin, Bernard, 1918-
System: The UNT Digital Library

A blow to the Axis, more lumber for the Army.

A shirtless man uses an axe to chop down a tree. He wears a hat and blue jeans, with a red bandana in his back pocket.
Date: 1943
Creator: Von Schmidt, Harold, 1893-1982
System: The UNT Digital Library

Get a load of this-- : the Army needs lumber for crates and boxes.

Color poster of three soldiers loading crates with a lifting device consisting of ropes attached to a metal hook. Two soldiers are shirtless; all are wearing helmets. In the background, bombs explode in the water near a boat loaded with wooden crates.
Date: 1943
Creator: Karl, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library

A lifetime education free for high school graduates who qualify: U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.

A woman in a gray military uniform is shown in the right foreground. In the left background are two young women in dresses, carrying books and looking at the uniformed woman.
Date: 1945
Creator: Ross, Alexander, 1909-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Desert victory : the actual story of the rout of Rommel by the British Eighth Army : a full-length feature picture.

Movie poster in brown and red tones, promoting the film, "Desert Victory". At the top is a close-up image of a portion of a typed document: "Directive to General Alexander, Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East" and photographs of Bernard Montgomery (left) and Harold Alexander (right) in uniform; along the left side are three photographs of wartime scenes; and at the lower right is an illustration of a battle scene.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

"This is my fight too!" : put at least 10% every payday in war bonds.

The poster image is a black & white photograph. A a woman smiles, holding and looking at folded $25 war bonds and an envelope. Her dark hair is coiffed and she wears a work uniform with a "10%" slogan button on her pocket. In the background is a "paymaster" window and a "10%" slogan sign on the wall.
Date: 1942
Creator: United States. War Savings Staff.
System: The UNT Digital Library

You are one of 50,000,000 Americans who must fill out an income tax return by March 15th : ... file yours early.

Pictures of 1944 1040 form and 1944 withholding receipt (W-2 form) in between red and blue text.
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Dept. of the Treasury.
System: The UNT Digital Library