Smack 'em down! Fly with the U.S. Marines / Vic Guiness, Capt. U.S.M.C. – Historic Reproduction
![Smack 'em down! Fly with the U.S. Marines / Vic Guiness, Capt. U.S.M.C., Camden, N.J. : Alpha Lithograph Co., [19]42. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/55/55f102c4b53c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Smack 'em down! Fly with the U.S. Marines / Vic Guiness, Capt. U.S.M.C., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Few recruiting posters from the Second World War promised the excitement of the cockpit as directly as this one, which urges viewers to "Smack 'em down!" and "Fly with the U.S. Marines." The text is credited to Capt. Vic Guiness of the Marine Corps, and the color lithograph was printed by the Alpha Lithograph Co. of Camden, New Jersey, in 1942. That year, after Pearl Harbor, the Marines were expanding their aviation branch quickly, and posters like this one were meant to draw young men toward flight training as well as the ground forces. The piece shows how the service pitched itself to potential pilots at the start of the war.
| Created / published | Camden, N.J. : Alpha Lithograph Co., [19]42. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Posters 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Subjects | United States.--Marine Corps--Recruiting & enlistment--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Air pilots--American--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,128 × 1,451 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216616 |
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