# His War Is Over, Yours Isn't, a 6th War Loan photograph

His War Is Over.. Yours Isn't! is a 1944 Treasury poster for the 6th War Loan. A photograph shows soldiers carrying a wounded man on a stretcher through surf, and the text tells the reader to buy extra bonds (NAID 514500).

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      His war is over.. Yours isn't! Buy extra bonds, 6th War Loan

      His War Is Over, Yours Isn't, a 6th War Loan photograph
      1944 Treasury War Finance Division poster for the 6th War Loan, imprint WFD 964. Stretcher bearers in surf under "His war is over.. Yours isn't!" NAID

## Techniques named on the archive record

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      Date1944Made byU.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division (printed by the Government Printing Office)MediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeRoosevelt AdministrationNARANAID 514500; Record Group 44SourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceU.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters , retrieved October 4, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. government work) U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-993 (NAID 514500).
      Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records.

      Full record at propagandaarchive.org

  His War Is Over.. Yours Isn't! is a 1944 Treasury poster for the 6th War Loan. A photograph shows soldiers carrying a wounded man on a stretcher through surf, and the text tells the reader to buy extra bonds (NAID 514500).

## What the poster prints

The image is a photograph, not a painting. Men wade through shallow water carrying a casualty on a stretcher. A blue headline runs above them and a red panel below holds the ask. In the archive's reading, the word "Yours" is underlined.

His war is over..

Yours isn't!

BUY EXTRA BONDS

6TH WAR LOAN

[imprint: ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—611160]

[imprint: WFD 964]

Transcription in the FRAME record. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. NAID 514500, Record Group 44, local id 44-PA-993.

## Who issued it

The maker line is the U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division, printed by the Government Printing Office. WFD 964 is the division's number. The record does not name the photographer or the place and date of the photograph. It is not shown whether the man on the stretcher lived.

## How to read it

"His war is over" is ambiguous on purpose. It can mean wounded and going home, or it can mean dead. The poster does not settle it, and it does not need to. The weight of the line comes from the gap between a stretcher and a purchase.

The archive files this under transfer: the soldier's sacrifice is lent to the bond. That is accurate. It is also fair to say what the poster did not do. It did not claim that a bond would save this man. It claimed that the reader still had a part to play, which in a war fought by a conscript army and financed in part by voluntary loans was true. The appeal leans hard on guilt, and a reader can say so without calling the cause false.

The same Treasury series runs from the 4th War Loan shield card to the 7th War Loan flag raising. For the agencies behind the series, see the Office of War Information hub. Who ran the war loans, and beside which other offices, is in the Roosevelt administration essay.

## Sources

- FRAME object record, His war is over.. Yours isn't! Buy extra bonds, 6th War Loan, 1944. U.S. Treasury Department, War Finance Division (printed by the Government Printing Office). U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, NAID 514500, 44-PA-993, retrieved by the archive 4 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work).

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/his-war-is-over-yours-isnt-6th-war-loan-1944/