greatest generation

Every Citizen a Soldier: World War II Posters on the American Home Front →

World War II posters helped to mobilize a nation. Inexpensive, accessible and ever-present, the poster was an ideal agent for making victory the personal mission of every citizen. Government agencies, businesses, and private organizations issued an array of poster images, linking the military front with the home front and calling upon every American to boost production at work and at home. Deriving their appearance from the fine and commercial arts and expressing the needs and goals of the people who created them, posters conveyed more than simple slogans.

Great essay over at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History!

German newsreel about the invasion of Normandy

I’m proud of my two soldiers

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“Never in the history of human conflict, has so much been owed by so many, to so few. It was perhaps, their finest hour.” 

Winston Churchill

This quote is describing the RAF fighter pilots who fought bravely in the Battle of Britain.  It could also be taken as describing the whole greatest generation, as this was perhaps, humanity’s finest hour.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Der Fuhrer’s Face

A propaganda short by Disney starring Donald Duck. “Oh boy! Am I glad to be a citizen of the United States of America!”

Canadian poster