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"Salvage Scrap to Blast the
Jap
", an
American government propaganda
poster from
World War II
, showing a
Bald Eagle
, the
national bird
, dropping a bomb on a snake representing
Japan
. During the war, the U.S. officially had no
propaganda
, but the
Roosevelt
government used various means to circumvent this official line, including the
Writers' War Board
and the
Office of War Information
.
Poster: Phil von Phul; Restoration:
Lise Broer
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