# Ooooh! Nifty WWII Posters!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 12, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooooh-nifty-wwii-posters/307926 "2005-06-12T02:56:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooooh-nifty-wwii-posters/307926/1 "2005-06-12T02:56:08Z")

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The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library is featuring WWII posters [on it’s website.](http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/posters/index.html) It’s their way of commemorating V-E Day.

Gee, I wonder who drew [this one?](http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/posters/teach2.htm)

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooooh-nifty-wwii-posters/307926/2 "2005-06-12T03:10:03Z")

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> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Gee, I wonder who drew [this one?](http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/posters/teach2.htm)

That is just _wonderful_. Thank you for pointing us towards it 🙂

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**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooooh-nifty-wwii-posters/307926/3 "2005-06-12T03:14:03Z")

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I knew without looking who the artist in that link would turn out to be.

There was a documentary on recently about how cartoonists contributed to the war effort in WWII.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooooh-nifty-wwii-posters/307926/4 "2005-06-12T04:09:33Z")

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This is a good one!

[http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/hemp4war.htm](http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/hemp4war.htm)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooooh-nifty-wwii-posters/307926/5 "2005-06-12T05:16:34Z")

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[So _that’s_ what the kids called it back then.](http://digital.lib.umn.edu/IMAGES/reference/swhp/SWHP0211.jpg)