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Beer In Ads #2822: Horsepower For Victory

November 12, 2018 By Jay Brooks Leave a Comment


Monday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1942. This World War 2 ad features ghostly horses riding the sky above Navy warships to illustrate the power of diesel engines which, according to A-B, were first built for use in their breweries. Hmm.

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