THE 7th WAR LOAN .**.
May 14. Americans, as individuals, are taking on
their biggest quota to date—7 billion dollars,
4 billions in E Bonds alone.
You may be wondering, “Why this biggest
of all individual quotas now? Haven’t we al
ready reached the peak?”
A fair question—requiring a straight answer.
The Money Is Needed for War
The Battle of Japan has just begun. It must
be backed up, paid for, fought for by a free
people, intent on sweeping the Pacific clear of
fascist hate—forever.
With the war in the West our first and major
concern, we have not yet been able to go all
out in the East. But neither has the Jap.
The war to crush Japan will be bigger, tougher,
and longer than most Americans expect. The
Allied Military Command has estimated that
it will take years, not months.
The destruction efi Japan’s armies has not
yet reached the annual rate of normal replace
ments—between 200,000 and 250,000 men a
year. And the Jap, as our men in the Pacific
know, fights to the death.
As far as Japan is concerned, the outer Empire
—and the men who defend it—are expendables.
The Jap will fight the Battle of Japan from
inside the inner Empire, of which Iwo Jima was
an outpost. And Iwo Jima, according to Admiral
Nimitz, was a pattern of the resistance our
forces may expect to meet in future offensives.
New Tacks, New Needs
The single greatest obstacle to our crushing of
Japan is distance. While in the Battle of Europe
supply ships from our bases in England had
only an overnight run to make, ships in the
Pacific have long-reach round trips taking up
to 6 months to make.
To crush Japan will take time, heroic and
back-breaking effort, overpowering equipment.
Millions of fighting men—freshly outfitted
and equipped—will have to be moved from
Europe; halfway around the globe and supplied
day-in, day-out by hundreds of new ships now
building.
More of everything will be needed. More
B-29's. More tanks, half-tracks, jeeps, and
trucks. More rockets, mortars, airborne radar.
A whole new air force is in creation—huge new
bombers dwarfing the Superfortress—fast new
jet-propelled combat planes, the P-80 or ‘ Shoot
ing Star,” coming off the lines by thousands.
These are just some of the 101 ways in which
your dollars are needed more than ever to bring
America’s might to its full strength—so that
we may crush our foe the faster, make an end
of killing, and bring our men back home.
And Lest We Forget
The sick, wounded, and disabled will require
medical attention and care.
Many millions of dollars will be required for
mustering-out pay and benefits voted by
Congress to help our veterans get started again
in civilian life.
That’s the least we can do in return for what
they’ve done for us.
Winning the Peace
. . . . 3 other weighty reasons for supper-mg
the 7th War Loan—reasons that take us from
the present to the future.
By investing in the 7th War Loan, the pa
triotic American is safeguarding his own future,
his country’s future.
By putting every dollar over rock-bottom
expenses into the purchase of War Bonds, he is
delivering a body blow to wartime Inflation—
thus putting a lid on the cost of living and
maintaining intact the
purchasing power of the
dollar. At the same time,
too, he is insuring the coun
try and himself against the
catastrophe of a possible
postwar deflation—with its
depression, unemployment,
misery, and heartache.
MIGHTY
So save for your country—save for yourself.
In helping your country, you are also helping
yourself! Come peace, we’ll all need money for
education, replacements, retirement, new homes,
a new start—and we’ll need a lot of it. And
there isn’t a better or safer highroad to your
goal than United States Saving Bonds.
Making 2 = 3
Tills year there will be only two War Loan
Drives, not three. But in those two drives the
Government will have to raise almost as much
money from individuals as in the three drives
last year. That means bigger extra bonds in the
7th. Because only by buying more can we make
2 take the place of 3.
The 26 million Americans who buy bonds on
payroll savings are already off to a flying start!
These patriotic men and women began their
buying in April. And they will keep on buying
extra bonds through May and June!
It’s now up to the rest of us. It’s our turn to
swing in line. To raise the vast sum needed,
every American will have to dig deeper into
current income—dig deeper into cash reserves.
Only by buying bigger extra bonds can we stretch
2 into 3!
Let all Americans do their part—for their
own sake, for their country’s.
If you have an income—whether from work,
land, or capital—you have a quota in the 7th War
Loan. Find out what that quota is—and make it!
MND YOUR QUOTA . . . AND MAKE ITI
IF YOUR
AVERAGE INCOME
PER MONTH IS:
YOUR PERSONAL
WAR BOND
QUOTA IS!
(CASH VALUE)
MATURITY
VALUE OF
7th WAR LOAN
BONDS BOUGHT
$250
225-250
210-225
200-210
183-200
140-180
100-140
L'.ider $100
$187.5*
150.00
131.25
112.50
93.75
75.00
37.50
18.75
$250
200
175
150
125
100
50
25
ALL OUT FOR THE MIGHTY 7th WAR LOAN
'Jhe U. S. Treasury Department gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of this advertisement by
O. Kraft & Son