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French Resistance helps throttle the Boche.

Description: Black & white photograph of of a soldier in a helmet being choked by two hands. The soldier's face is tinted green; the hands are not. The poster background is in shades of blue, white, and red. A red flame design shoots up along the right side of the photo, and a white flame design is superimposed on the hands.
Date: 1944
Creator: Louvat, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Have you really tried to save gas by getting into a car club?

Description: Close-up of a soldier's face. He wears a helmet which is unstrapped. A white bandage can be seen on his forehead under the helmet. Blood drips down the side of his face from the bandage to his jaw.
Date: 1944
Creator: Von Schmidt, Harold, 1893-1982
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Keep the home front pledge : pay no more than ceiling prices, pay your points in full.

Description: Color poster promoting compliance with food conservation and price control programs. A young blond woman in an apron raises her hand to take a pledge. By her shoulder is a small inset box featuring a graphic image of a hand carrying a food basket, with the slogan, "Food Fights for Freedom". Additional captions contained in this inset are "Produce and Conserve" and "Share and Play Square".
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Office of Price Administration.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Let's finish the job! : urgent-- experienced seamen needed!

Description: A seaman holds the wheel of a ship. He has blue eyes and auburn hair and he wears a brown jacket and blue knitted sweater and watch cap. On his jacket he wears a pin of the U.S. Merchant Marine seal. The poster background is yellow.
Date: 1944
Creator: Sawyers, Martha, 1902-1988.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Next! : 6th War Loan.

Description: Large head of a helmeted soldier grimaces at an aerial image of the island nation of Japan. At left is an inset graphic of a blue bomb falling on the Japanese flag.
Date: 1944
Creator: Bingham, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Palau's fall would weaken Japs.

Description: Black & white map of the southern Pacific Ocean, showing the north of Australia, parts of China, Korea, and French-Indo-China, New Guinea, the Philippines, Japan, and several small islands. An inset text box in the lower left corner titled "Pacific Progress" describes the completed and future goals of the U.S. armed forces toward defeating Japan. In the upper right corner is an inset map of Palau.
Date: 1944
Creator: O'Donohoe, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Protect his future: buy and keep war bonds.

Description: Color poster shows a young, smiling boy being lifted in the air holding on to a man's hands. The boy has blond hair and is wearing red overalls and a white t-shirt.
Date: 1944
Creator: Nichols, Ruth Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Red Army encircling Balkans.

Description: Black & white newsmap showing the planned paths of the Soviet armed forces through eastern Europe toward Berlin, Germany.
Date: 1944
Creator: O'Donohoe, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The sky's the limit! : keep buying war bonds.

Description: Color poster of a female mechanic and two male mechanics maintaining or building an airplane. Other military airplanes can be seen on the ground in the background. A "6th War Loan" seal in the upper right corner of the poster depicts a bomb about to strike a Japanese flag.
Date: 1944
Creator: Allen, Courtney, 1896-1969
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Your government warns, prepare for winter now! ....

Description: Poster in blue and red tones, urging people to prepare for winter responsibly and to conserve fuel. Includes small pictures of a fuel truck, a furnace, and a house.
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Solid Fuels Administration for War.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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