Nor ver Wow.’

THIS WAR IS NOT
YET WON. True, we have
taken Tarawa and the Mar-
shalls, North Africa, Sicily
and Southern Italy. True,
even now our forces are
pounding at the fortress of

 

Europe. .
But—

THIS WAR IS NOT
YET WON ... only for

the dead is it over . . . and they, thank God, are yet
comparatively few. But what of the living? What of
the many wounded—the men whose hopes, whose
dreams, whose futures depend on what we do to sus-

_tain them now?

THIS WAR IS NOT YET WON. We at home have
only begun to feel the weight of our debt to our fight-
ing men... to the living—to the wounded—yes,
above all, to the dead. Ours is the responsibility to
work, to save, to buy all the War Bonds we can, to
smooth the road they must travel that the journey may

be made swiftly and the end reached soon.

may live to fight on to final Victory if you do your
part here at home. :

Your part, in addition to whatever else you are doing, ©
is lending your money to help pay the tremendous
costs of war.

LENDING—NOT GIVING!

That certainly shouldn’t be looked on as a hard-
ship. Hundreds of thousands of our fighting men
are really enduring hardships, living under the worst
possible conditions—and buying War Bonds besides.

What about those of us at home, living in com-
parative comfort and security, many of us earning
more than we ever earned before? We should consider
lending money to the Government a privilege as well
as an obligation. And then we should keep lending—
every cent we can possibly spare—until the war is
over and won.

AND REMEMBER

Here are five more reasons for buying extra ‘War

Bonds in the Fifth War Loan:

1. War Bonds are the best, the

 

THIS WAR IS NOT YET WON.
Invasion comes high—and the cost
in blood will be heavy indeed. Never
before have coasts been so fortified
as those in the probable invasion
areas, with defenses miles deep,
roads mined, pillboxes everywhere.

NO, OUR WAR HAS JUST
STARTED—and the sooner we ac-
cept all our responsibilities, the
sooner it will be won. Out on some
bloody battlefield, a boy you know

 

safest investment in the world!

2. War Bonds (series E) return
you $4 for every $3 in 10 years.

3. War Bonds help keep prices
down.

4. War Bonds will help win the
peace by increasing purchasing
power after the war.

5. War Bonds mean education for
your children, security for you,

funds for retirement.