en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms_(Rockwell)

This sentence conflates two different bond drives.

• The First War Loan did not begin in early 1942. A Duke University summary of U.S. WWII bond drives states: “The First War Loan began on November 30, 1942 and ended December 23, 1942.”
• The Victory Loan was not the first drive. The same Duke source identifies it as the “Eighth, or Victory, War Loan” and says it ran October 29, 1945 to December 8, 1945.
• A Truman Library page likewise distinguishes the two, noting that in April 1945 the Treasury was preparing the seventh war loan, and that “another and final war loan, the Victory Loan, was completed” later in 1945.

So the article’s wording is incorrect in two ways: the first War Loan did not start in early 1942, and it was not the Victory Loan. The first drive started in late 1942, while the Victory Loan was the eighth/final drive in late 1945.

The closing date given here does not match the Guggenheim’s own exhibition record.

• The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation lists Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People as a “Past Exhibition November 3, 2001–March 3, 2002.”
• Other itinerary summaries for the same tour also place the Guggenheim stop in late 2001 through March 3, 2002.

That means the exhibition did not conclude at the Guggenheim on February 11, 2002. The documented closing date was March 3, 2002.

Available museum and historical sources consistently describe the response as about 25,000 reprint requests, not “millions.”

• The Norman Rockwell Museum says that after publication, “the Post received 25,000 requests for reprints.”
• Smithsonian Magazine likewise reports that immediately after publishing the paintings, the magazine received “25,000 requests to purchase copies.”
• George Washington University’s summary of the exhibition also states that “The Post received 25,000 reprint requests.”

So this sentence appears to exaggerate the scale of the initial reprint demand by a very large margin. Later in the war-bond campaign, poster demand was enormous, but the specific claim about the Post receiving millions of reprint requests when the series was published is contradicted by these sources.