War bonds poster with a soldier's helmet by a white cross grave marker

The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015. 

War bonds poster with a soldier's helmet by a white cross grave marker 

overall: Height: 23.125 inches (58.738 cm) | Width: 17.375 inches (44.133 cm) 

Buy War Bonds poster issued by the Institute for American Democracy, Inc. to encourage the purchase of war bonds and war stamps. The poster depicts a US Army combat helmet by a white cross in a graveyard full of crosses, asking ".does it matter whether he was Protestant, Catholic or Jew ? He fought American. He died American. He was American" The United States Treasury Department issued war bonds to encourage the purchase of war bonds and war stamps. There were 8 war loan drives conducted from 1942 to 1945. The public could purchase a $25 war bond for $18.75 which would be used to help pay for the military’s expenses. The war bond could be redeemed 10 years after the purchase for the full $25. Bond quotas were set up on the national, state, county, and town levels to encourage the sale of war bonds. Volunteers went door-to-door to sell war bonds. By the end of the war, 85 million Americans had purchased $185.7 billion dollars worth of bonds. The war in Europe ended May 8, 1945, and the war in Japan on September 2, 1945. 

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Poster with several paragraphs of text, a Pledge for Good Americans, and an image of a cross and a helmet at an unknown soldier's grave, with additional crosses in the background. Black ink on a white background. back, handwritten : War Bonds