Tobaccoland U.S.A. at War 1943 Chesterfield Ad

[Briar Lee]

I have a good friend named James Clarence whose father was stationed in the Pacific when he was born in 1942. He can only dimly remember Harry Truman announcing we’d dropped the atom bombs and then seeing his father get off the Greyhound at Cross Timbers the next year.

Those that can barely remember the war are over eighty and the veterans all nearly a hundred years old.

But for America’s enemies who might risk bombing one of our outposts early on a Sunday morning, this masterful piece of Chesterfield wartime propaganda from 1943 should do them well to watch.

We’d fight again, united in purpose, if the need came.

Bonus points to identify the sedan the tobacco buyers are visiting the fields.

I think this is it.

 

[huntertrw]

Briar Lee:

Thank-you for the video link. Never forget!

The automobile is a 1940 Packard 110 four-door touring sedan. The "Flying Lady" radiator-cap gives it away.

 

[Briar Lee]

The car I thought it was is a 1938 Dodge.



But I’d prefer it be a 1940 Packard 110. A much classier ride to the tobacco fields.



I’ve looked again and can’t tell.

 

[drrock]

Thx for posting the interesting video.
I think the tobacco buyer's car is a 1938 Buick.

 

[Briar Lee]

Thx for posting the interesting video.
I think the tobacco buyer's car is a 1938 Buick.View attachment 285190

I agree, by the spare tire on the side.

If the Japanese had realized, that in America tobacco buyers scouted crops for Chesterfields using big black Buicks with spare tires on both fenders, maybe they’d have not bombed Pearl Harbor, you know?