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SULLIVAN BROTHERS POSTER - American WWII propaganda poster 'the five Sullivan brothers missing in action off the Solomons They Did Their Part'. OWI poster No. 42, Washington D.C. US Government Printing Office, 1943. US recruitment poster with a photograph of the five Sullivan brothers, sailors on the U.S.S. Juneau, in 1942. All 5 brothers were killed in an attack when their ship was struck by a Japanese torpedo on the morning of November 13, 1942. 28 x 22 inches. Mailing folds, pinhole marks, minor 1-inch splits along folds, archival tape repairs on verso.