Propaganda and Patriotic Cinderellas.

Lots more P & P tomorrow but to say 'Goodnight' here are a couple of gruesome Anti-Communist labels.

A selection of WWII Propaganda labels.

These labels were issued by the US Marines in the summer of 1942 and available to family and friends only. Printed Se-tenant in sheets of 20.

In Abilene, Texas they were available from the Marine recruitment Office. One most likely needed some form of ID to obtain them.

A wonderful idea and gesture.

God Bless America.

I didn't find anything on these Czech propaganda labels but they may belong to a larger set, possibly in the form of a se-tenant sheet ?

Possibly an idea by the Czech Government-in-Exile given the Union Flag present ?

I'll search some more when my eyes are not so weary..........

On the day when Spitfires once again flew over the South of England, I can confirm that these are indeed British Poster stamps. They come from a se-tenant sheet of 6 designs but I have no information on how large the sheet was. They were issued in 1942. That's all I know at the moment. They were sold in the USA also by the Poster Stamp Publishing Company of Chicago and for 15c a set of 6 !!!!

news.sky.com/video/1537702/spitfires-in-historic-flypast

Shown previously in this thread was a German Wartime Propaganda Label in the form of a 'disfigured' KGVI definitive. here is another with a

'Liquidation of an Empire' boxed overprint. Many countries were included in these labels and this one for Barbados with the usual fake 'London' cancel.

I found this in the Charing Cross Collectors Market, an unusual place to find such a gem. It pays to search in all corners for items you seek !!

Many U.S. stamp clubs engaged in "V for Victory" campaigns during World War II to support the purchase of war bonds and savings stamps.  Following are some club labels to show support for these efforts.

The following snippet describes the origin of its use in "V for Victory: Celebrating a Gesture of Solidarity and Defiance," by Ben Cosgrove; Time.com; July 4, 2014.

    Here, on the anniversary of the day—July 19, 1941—when Churchill first endorsed the "V for Victory" effort in a speech to his compatriots, LIFE.com celebrates the gesture as one of those unlikely strokes of genius that, while by their very nature     symbolic, occasionally serve to unite and inspire millions. It's also worth noting, in passing, that employing the "V" sign as a gesture of defiance and solidarity was first suggested in January 1941 by the liberal Belgian politician, Victor de Laveleye.     He encouraged the use of the symbol because V stood for both victoire ("victory" in French) and vrijheid ("freedom" in Dutch).

    Finally, we should point out that when Churchill—the son of a British Lord and an American mother from a family of enormous wealth—first began using the V sign in public, he frequently held his hand with the knuckles facing outward, perhaps     because he was so often clutching a cigar. His staff had to inform him that gesturing in that manner was the British working-class equivalent of flipping the bird. For the rest of the war, and the rest of his life, Churchill made sure that there could be     no possible doubt about the message he meant to send with those two famous fingers.