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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Remember Me? I Was at Bataan. Buy War Bonds
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of War Information, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A war bond poster held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-1626, gathered by the Office of War Information's Bureau of Special Services and dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
American and Filipino troops on Bataan surrendered in April 1942, and the Treasury's eight War Loan Drives between 1941 and 1946 sold bonds for the war; this sheet sells them in a Bataan soldier's voice.
What to notice
The title is a question and an answer in a soldier's voice before it is an order to buy.
A defeat, kept on the books as a debt.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- War Bonds
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 515292, local id 44-PA-1626), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 515292 · 44-PA-1626
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 515292, 44-PA-1626): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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