This poster promotes one of the three war bond drives held in 1944 (the fourth, fifth, and sixth of eight launched by the United States government during World War II). It encourages Americans to buy war bonds on each payday; in fact, some employers organized automatic payroll deductions to allow employees to save for war bonds with each paycheck. The composition, showing a gunner manning an anti-aircraft gun in the foreground as a plane in the background nosedives in a plume of black smoke, is in the traditional illustrational style common to most official American posters of this time. And like many war bond posters, it relates the actions of those on the home front directly to the efforts of fighting men on the battlefield. Martha Sawyers was one of few American women illustrators to design posters for the war effort. Born in Texas, she trained at the Art Students League in New York, and went on to work for LIFE, Liberty, and American magazine, among others. During the war, she was hired as a war correspondent in Asia by Collier’s magazine and produced several posters for Chinese war relief.