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Original Item: Only One Available. Fantastic original World War 2 Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds poster. Full color print poster of two sailors on a Navy submarine at sea. One sailor is using a search light and the other is looking through binoculars. The sailors wear blue jackets and knitted "watch caps". A U.S. flag can be seen on the ship deck below as well as an artillery gun.
"In memory, U.S.S. Dorado" - At upper left corner of poster. Logo near bottom of poster: "5th 'V' War Loan".
Designed in 1994 by artist Georges Schreiber (1904-1977) commemorates the sinking of the USS Dorado submarine in this 1944 War Bonds poster entitled, Fire Away, for the Fifth War Loan. Schreiber sailed aboard the ship in the summer of 1943 and had a personal connection to the tragedy. USS Dorado (SS-248) was a Gato-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 27 August 1942 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut and was commissioned on 28 August 1943 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Earle Caffrey Schneider. The USS Dorado sailed for the Panama Canal for use in the East Asia war effort. The submarine was sunk off the coast of Cuba due to a minefield left by a German-NSDAP U Boat. This is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction.
Read on the lower edge "U.S. Government Printing Office : 1944-O-581636" and "WFD 908-A". Measures 20" x 28" and offered in very good condition with fold lines, edge wear and a bit of loss to the upper left edge line. A rare vintage U.S. Sub poster from WW2!
"In memory, U.S.S. Dorado" - At upper left corner of poster. Logo near bottom of poster: "5th 'V' War Loan".
Designed in 1994 by artist Georges Schreiber (1904-1977) commemorates the sinking of the USS Dorado submarine in this 1944 War Bonds poster entitled, Fire Away, for the Fifth War Loan. Schreiber sailed aboard the ship in the summer of 1943 and had a personal connection to the tragedy. USS Dorado (SS-248) was a Gato-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 27 August 1942 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut and was commissioned on 28 August 1943 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Earle Caffrey Schneider. The USS Dorado sailed for the Panama Canal for use in the East Asia war effort. The submarine was sunk off the coast of Cuba due to a minefield left by a German-NSDAP U Boat. This is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction.
Read on the lower edge "U.S. Government Printing Office : 1944-O-581636" and "WFD 908-A". Measures 20" x 28" and offered in very good condition with fold lines, edge wear and a bit of loss to the upper left edge line. A rare vintage U.S. Sub poster from WW2!
