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Hit Hard and Often With the Marines restored 1942 Marine Corps recruiting poster: a silver Grumman Wildcat fighter shooting down two Japanese aircraft over Japanese rooftops with Mount Fuji in the distance
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Hit Hard and Often With the Marines — Paper Print

Price range: $49.00 through $179.00

A 1942 Marine Corps recruiting poster, restored: a Grumman F4F Wildcat dives out of a night-blue sky, guns blazing, and two Japanese aircraft tumble towards the rooftops below Mount Fuji. Hit hard and often with the Marines. Issued by the Marine Corps Publicity Bureau on 15 September 1942.

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Unframed or framed, printed to order in the USA.

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Made to order. All sales final. Replacements or refunds only for damaged, faulty or incorrect prints reported within 7 days. Returns policy

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  • Free Standard shipping to the US
  • Printed to order in the USA, paper or framed
  • Quality promise: damaged, faulty or incorrect prints replaced if reported within 7 days (details)
Paper & printing

Giclée print on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper: a smooth, natural-white fine-art stock with no glare, so the restored colours read true under any light.

Each print has a slim white border and is supplied unframed, ready for a standard frame or hanging clips.

Shipping & returns

Every print is made to order. Standard shipping to the US is free; Express is available at checkout. You will get tracking details by email when your print is on its way.

Because each print is custom-made, all sales are final and we do not accept change-of-mind returns. If your print arrives damaged, has a production fault or is the wrong item, tell us within 7 days of delivery with photos and we will send a free replacement.

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Which size should I choose?

11.7 × 16.5 in suits a desk, shelf or gallery wall. 20 × 28 in works above a desk, console or bed. 23.4 × 33.1 in is a statement piece above a sofa or in a hallway.

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Framing

Framed prints come in a solid wood, satin-finish frame in black, white or natural wood, glazed with shatterproof acrylic. The print is the same 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper as our unframed editions.

Framed artwork sizes are 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in and 23 × 33 in (the frame adds a little to each side). Every frame is made to order in the USA and arrives with a hook fitted, ready to hang.

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Restoration

Before & after

Drag the divider to compare the archival source scan with our restored edition. Tears, stains, fading and paper damage were repaired by hand while keeping the original artwork, lettering and colors true to the period.

Your print is made from the restored edition on the right.

Hit Hard and Often With the Marines — Paper Print restored edition
Hit Hard and Often With the Marines — Paper Print archival source
Before After

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Each size is shown to scale on the same wall. Prints are unframed and made to order.

Description

The Hit Hard and Often With the Marines poster

Hit Hard and Often With the Marines was issued by the Marine Corps Publicity Bureau on 15 September 1942, nine months after Pearl Harbor. A silver Grumman F4F Wildcat with the white star of the United States dives across a deep blue sky, its guns streaming red tracer, as two Japanese aircraft marked with the red sun break up and fall. Below them lie the curved roofs of a Japanese town, and in the distance the snow cap of Mount Fuji.

The poster carries the bureau’s code MCPB 105578 9-15-42 15M, a print run of 15,000, and was lithographed in Philadelphia. The artist is not credited. It was printed as a 28 × 40 inch poster and as a small window card for shop windows and recruiting offices, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library holds one of the cards.

Marine Corps historians single it out as the most direct reference to the Japanese air attacks of any Marine recruiting poster of the war. In September 1942 Marine Wildcat squadrons were fighting daily over Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, and the poster invited the viewer to picture himself in the cockpit.

Read the full history of the poster.

Restored edition

Restored from a photograph of an original print. The colour was cleaned and brought back, with folds, stains, tears and wear removed. The lettering and printed marks are kept from the original.

Sizes and options

  • Paper print: 11.7 × 16.5 in, 20 × 28 in or 23.4 × 33.1 in
  • Framed print: 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in or 23 × 33 in, in a black, white or natural wood frame, ready to hang

Printed to order in the USA on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper. Free Standard shipping to the US. Compare the print sizes.

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