Navy
Travel, Navy: Lou Nolan’s Far East Recruiting Poster
A destroyer at anchor in a Far East harbour, a sampan and a junk with an orange sail: the story of Lou Nolan’s Travel Navy recruiting poster.
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Homecoming
Welcome Home Our Gallant Boys: A 1918 Homecoming Poster
Liberty raises the Allied flags to welcome American soldiers home in this 1918 Hennegan & Co. poster. Here is what it shows and the battles it names.
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Marine Corps
Hit Hard and Often: The 1942 Marine Corps Poster That Took the War to Japan
Issued nine months after Pearl Harbor, this Marine Corps recruiting poster put a Grumman Wildcat over Mount Fuji while Marine pilots were fighting for their lives at Guadalcanal.
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Patriotism
Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty: Bernard Perlin’s 1778–1943 Poster
Bernard Perlin’s 1943 OWI poster marches World War II soldiers past the ragged Continental Army of 1778. Here is what it shows, what it meant and who made it.
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Navy
Build for Your Navy! The Seabees Recruiting Poster
Carpenters, machinists and electricians wanted: the story of Robert Muchley’s WPA poster recruiting the Navy’s Seabees.
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Home Front
Libres: Herbert Bayer’s 1942 Four Freedoms Poster in Spanish
How Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer turned Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms into a vivid Spanish-language poster for Latin America in 1942.
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Marine Corps
They Call Them Devil-Hounds: Victor Pérard’s 1918 Marines Poster
Printed in the month of Belleau Wood, this poster turned a newspaper nickname into a Marine Corps legend: the Germans call them devil-hounds, but they are hounding the devil.
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Home Front
Your Victory Garden: Food Production on the WWII Home Front
Hubert Morley’s vegetable-filled design presents home gardening as a practical wartime contribution.
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Battle History
Chippawa, 1814: The Battle Behind the Artwork
The grey-coated regulars at Chippawa connect this battle scene with a turning point in the War of 1812.
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Battle History
Harlem Heights, 1776: A Fight That Restored Confidence
The action of 16 September 1776 gave Washington’s army an important lift during the New York campaign.
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World War II
Normandy 1944: From the June Landings to the July Breakout
A guide to the important distinction between D-Day in June and Operation Cobra in July.
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World War II
Bougainville, 1943: The Campaign Behind the Jungle Scene
The Bougainville campaign explains the setting of this jungle combat artwork.
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