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title: A Victory Creed for '43 - Produce for Your Navy - Victory Begins at Home!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-victory-creed-for-43-produce-for-your-navy-1943/
description: A pledge in calligraphy on a pinned parchment, beside four illustrated faces of a welder, a hard-hatted worker.
section: Collection
---

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[![A Victory Creed for '43 - Produce for Your Navy - Victory Begins at Home!, 1943 US poster: A pledge in calligraphy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-victory-creed-for-43-produce-for-your-navy-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-victory-creed-for-43-produce-for-your-navy-1943.jpg)

# A Victory Creed for '43 - Produce for Your Navy - Victory Begins at Home!

A pledge in calligraphy on a pinned parchment, beside four illustrated faces of a welder, a hard-hatted worker, a woman with a wrench and a smiling older man, ends with 'Produce for your Navy - Victory begins at home!'. Ordinary workers speak the pledge in the first person (plain-folks), and its terms (loyalty, thrift, care) are broad virtues (glittering generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
A Victory Creed for '43
I shall be regular in my attendance because every unnecessary day I take off is a red letter day for the enemy.
I shall be thrifty with my time, giving every working hour 60 minutes.
I shall be careful of my work so that neither waste nor delay shall endanger the life of a Navy man.
I shall be loyal to my job and my country, remembering that tomorrow's front line victories begin on the production lines today.
PRODUCE FOR YOUR NAVY
Victory Begins at Home!
[imprint: illegible, lower right]
```

[← A real partnership](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-real-partnership-1943/) [A word of thanks →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-word-of-thanks-red-cross-1943/)

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