"Crocodile" Navy Landing Boats, bakery card from the U. S. Armed Services series (D84), issued by the Ward Baking Company

Inscription: Printed text on recto of card: NEW U. S. WAR weapons include these fast, easily/ maneuvered Navy landing boats, manned by U. S. Marines./ Each boat carries 24 men and 5,000 pounds of equipment./ The new "Crocodile" boats (see background) carry tanks/ which are landed easily and quickly from broad gangplanks/ made by lowewring the blunt steel prow.
Printed text on verso of card: BOYS AND GIRLS/ Here's How YOU Can Do Your Part/ For National Defense/ Healthy soldiers are not enough for America's/ defense. Every boy and girl must be in tip-top/ shape, for the health of you and your family is/ a vital part of national defense. That's why government authorities are urging/ every American to eat Enriched bread./ Ward's Tip-Top Bread is an Enriched White/ Bread. it is made from a selected blend of wheat/ flour perfected in the Ward Research laboratories/ which contains the natural wheat Vitamin B Com-/plex. Tip-Top Bread is also made with a Magic/ New Kind of Yeast - a yeast rich in vitamins and/ minerals and used exclusively in enriching the/ dough for Tip-Top Bread./ AND DON'T FORGET . . ./ Buy United States War Stamps! Every Stamp you/ buy is a saving for you . . . and helps build/ another tank, airplane or battleship for America./ Help keep our country the land of the free and/ the home of the brave!/ Your dimes can help America win the war./ U. S. Armed Service No. 1/ Listen to Uncle Don./ WOR 6 P.M./ every weekday evening./ 1942 W. B. Co./ [facsimile of Ward's Tip-Top Bread label]

Jefferson R. Burdick (American)