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Rollin Kirby's Uncle Sam Goes To Battle
As American forces continued to arrive in Europe, the German Army began its spring 1918 offensive, Kaiserschlacht, on four fronts. By depicting Uncle Sam, a symbol of the American people, running toward the Second Battle of Picardy, editorial cartoonist Rollin Kirby encouraged Americans to join the European conflict. The Uncle Sam character had been introduced in the 1830s and was later popularized by cartoonist Thomas Nast. Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg made his grizzled, penetrating visage famous during World War I in his I Want You poster. |