WW1 Propaganda Posters: Thrift! & Uncle Sam

 

 I really love the word 'Thrift', its rare I hear it these days and for that reason this poster from WW1 is being placed up! Encouraging people to buy stamps for the cause in this poster.

You cannot beat an image of Sam with a bayonet. Are they explosions in the background? fireworks? Another poster around the time of the first world war, bringing out national pride in America and encourage people to help out whichever way they can.

No postings!?

Moving house means no internet for a while and time to post. It will be back to normal posts around the 10th of may. Delayed until late May, wp sky Broadband.

WW1 Canadian Soilders: Flanders Fields

Canadian stretcher bearers in Flanders fields from 1915, around the time that army physician John McCrae wrote his now world famous poem In Flanders Fields.

WW2 Leningrad freezing cold

Citizens of Leningrad, Russia fetching water from a shell hole in Ostrovsky Square, 1 Dec 1941. I did say in my previous posts about Russian cities being so cold! 

The siege lasted 872 days from September 1941 to January 1944. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. It isolated the city from most supplies except those provided through the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga, and more than a million civilians died, mainly from starvation. Many others were eventually evacuated or escaped by themselves, so the city became largely depopulated.

WW2 American Propaganda Poster: Yamamoto's aggression

American propaganda poster depicting Yamamoto's aggression, circa 1943. Its interesting how much Europe forgets the influence Japan had on getting America to join the allied forces in WW2. It feels like they were the number one enemy to America.  Anyway a not so subtle hint of what could happen seemed to be the message of this poster.

The American Civil War: Recruitment Posters. Union & Confeds

 Not looked into American Civil war recruitment/propaganda posters so it was a nice suprise to find these on a War forum. Judging by the poster money was a big incentive to sign up. Most of the men one assumes were from poor backgrounds and $13-$23/month + bonus and $100 when its over was good enough to swell the Union numbers sufficiantly.

Confederation side this time but alone the same lines as the Union poster. $25 clothes allowance and $50 sign up bonus makes it sound appealing for the mid to late 1800's. Touring public meetings to induce men to sign up was a standard event.

WW2 American Propaganda Posters: These colors Won't run; Aces

 WW2 American Propaganda Poster with a rather catchy line. "These colors won't run" I have heard this said in a fair few movies over the years. I guess Pearl Harbor had a huge impact on USA so was used to fuel the motivation for men to sign up to fight the Japanese and Nazi's.

Another American WW2 poster this time with a poker twist. Three cards depicting the three leaders of Italy, Japan and Germany. Aces as always is the best starting hand so they get to trump anything else, escuse the puns.