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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-199 (NAID 513644).
Text on the object
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]
