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  • Collection: The American Experience in World War II

-WE'RE_ALL_IN_THE_ARMY_NOW-_-_NARA_-_516100.jpg
This is a poster from World War II that had a goal of inspiring all Americans, military and civilian, to do what they can to keep us in and winning the war abroad.

We have just begun to fight!-001.jpg
Allied Soldier reaching his arm out for some kind of assistance while carrying a rifle.

Propaganda Piece.jpg
War Manpower Commission poster stating "I'm Proud...my husband wants me to do my part!" with a man and a woman pictured

amr clip 1.mp4
A short clip from the seventh film of the Why We Fight series by Frank Capra called "War Comes to America" In which they talk about how World War II has impacted the states and why we entered.

varga-girl-as-waac.jpg
Esquire Magazine image of a Varga Girl with Women's Army Auxillary Corps accessories.

USE IT UP-WEAR IT OUT-001.jpg
Female sowing the back part of a pair of jeans of a male who ripped them while doing lawn work.

guadalcanal.jpg
U.S. Army in final drive on Guadalcanal. American soldiers, clad in the briefest clothing because of intense heat, blast away at the few remaining enemy positions left on Guadalcanal in the Solomons during the final offensive which led to liberation…

United Nations stand for freedom.png
Poster with ships tanks and planes moving to the right. Various flags of allied nations are in the smoke above these objects.

00084-2013-001-ac.jpg
This is a WWII propaganda poster depicting two men, one African American and one white, working together on what appears to be a plane or some sort of vehicle with a large, brightly colored American flag in the background.
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