Americans All, Let's Fight for Victory is OWI Poster No. 65, printed in 1943 and signed by Leon Helguera. Two raised hands hold up a sombrero and a white Stetson-style hat against a sunburst, with the slogan in Spanish and English (NAID 513803).
What it shows
Two arms rise against a sunburst, each hand holding a hat. One is a brown sombrero with a floral band, on a brown sleeve trimmed with grey braid. The other is a white hat of the Stetson kind, on a sleeve of stars and stripes. The slogan is printed twice, once in Spanish and once in English.
[signature: Leon Helguera]
AMERICANOS TODOS
★
LUCHAMOS POR LA
VICTORIA
★ AMERICANS ALL ★
LET'S FIGHT FOR VICTORY
OWI Poster No. 65. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-528719]
Who issued it
The Office of War Information numbered it 65 in its poster series, and Leon Helguera signed it. Its printing office job number carries the year 1943, and the copy is in Record Group 44. The archive lists the audience as a diaspora or minority group, the purpose as winning support, and the themes as war, the home front, and race and ethnicity. No print run is recorded.
How to read it
The archive tags identity fusion and glittering generalities. The two hats stand for two groups of Americans, and the shared slogan makes them one. The Spanish line is not quite a translation of the English one: on the archive's rendering it says "we fight," a statement, where the English says "let's fight," an invitation.
The message is a good one, and it is addressed to its audience in their own language, which is a form of respect. It also uses costume as shorthand. A sombrero stands for Spanish-speaking Americans and a Stetson for English-speaking ones. That is a cartoon of both groups, though a friendly one. What the poster cannot show is whether the equal standing it promised held in practice; the record says nothing about that, and this page adds nothing.
The War Manpower Commission's 1942 Americans All poster used the same two words over a row of workers' surnames, and its NAID is one number lower than this sheet's. United We Win made the same case with a photograph. The Office of War Information hub and its poster index list more of the numbered series.
Sources
FRAME object record, Americans All, Let's Fight for Victory, 1943. Office of War Information (OWI Poster No. 65; artist Leon Helguera).
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, 44-PA-353, NAID 513803, retrieved by the archive 4 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work).
