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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (issuer not named on the sheet)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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)
Issuer not named on the sheet. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-329 (NAID 513776).
Text on the object
ALL HANDS..... needed ★ STAY WITH YOUR SHIP [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office : 1944—O—622124]
