This piece of propaganda is an example of the transfer technique because it portrays the Americans in WWII to the soldiers of the Revolutionary War, making us feel a certain way. The transfer technique is when two images are shown together, and the feeling invoked by one image is "transferred" onto the other, and the audience views the second image in that same light. This works well in this case because almost every American has a positive perspective of George Washington and the Americans who fought for freedom (they really did in this case), and by putting the two armies side by side, the audience begins to feel the same way about the new army. Maybe MacArthur and Patton are the new Washington and Arnold, who knows? The words “Americans will always fight for liberty” serve to strengthen this transfer.
Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web.
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