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title: All hands needed. Stay with your ship
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-hands-needed-stay-with-your-ship-1944/
description: 'Photomontage poster: two oversized hands cradle a small smiling sailor lying in a stretcher-like litter, under the headline ''All hands... needed''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![All hands needed. Stay with your ship, 1944 US poster: Photomontage poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/all-hands-needed-stay-with-your-ship-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/all-hands-needed-stay-with-your-ship-1944.jpg)

# All hands needed. Stay with your ship

Photomontage poster: two oversized hands cradle a small smiling sailor lying in a stretcher-like litter, under the headline 'All hands... needed'. A red star precedes the line 'Stay with your ship'. The technique is faint; the cheerful ordinary face and the hands holding him present the call as mutual care among shipmates.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
ALL
HANDS.....
needed
★ STAY WITH YOUR SHIP
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office : 1944—O—622124]
```

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