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Expect to be floored by the feeling of a fighter jet roaring just overhead while you sprint between POI, or to be blinded by an exploding rocket ship that disrupts your aim – just as you're about to pull the trigger of your sniper rifle. The sheer scale of Battlefield 2042 will wow even the most veteran Battlefield players, with environmental dangers like tornadoes and sandstorms threatening to take you out if the hundred or so enemies don't get to you first. If you love Battlefield games but always thought "why can't this be bigger", then Battlefield 2042 is the right game for you. Even Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, and other cartoon characters got into the spirit, reminding young people that “we’re all in this together.”Īll images are from the Education Collection, The National WWII Museum.Who's it for: Gadget gamers, spectacle stans, Twister aficionados

Schools held their own War Bond drives and students would bring in nickels, dimes, and quarters to see if their school could out-raise other schools. 25¢ War Stamps to paste into War Bond booklets. Children did their part, too, purchasing. Celebrities like Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis, and Marlene Dietrich, traveled the country putting on live shows or radio programs promoting War Bond sales. Posters picturing Uncle Sam or a soldier on the battlefield implored people to do their part. Now, $6.25 may not sound like a lot, but most Americans bought more than just $18.75 worth of War Bonds.Įverywhere they went Americans were encouraged to help support the war effort by purchasing War Bonds. That’s the investment you made in your own financial future. Ten years from the time you purchased your War Bond you could redeem it and get $25. The government would take that money to help pay for tanks, planes, ships, uniforms, weapons, medicine, food, and everything else the military needed to fight and win. You could purchase a $25 War Bond for $18.75. A War Bond was both an investment in one’s country and an investment in one’s own financial future. The United States Treasury offered Americans a series of War Bonds they could purchase during the war.

The United States spent more than $300 billion fighting the Axis Powers and supplying our Allies-that equals more than $4 trillion today! To help fund this effort, the government turned to ordinary Americans.