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title: All together, mates! Let's sink 'em!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-together-mates-lets-sink-em-packer-1941/
description: 'Commercial war poster: a helmeted, muscular sailor in an undershirt grimly carries a large naval shell toward a gun crew.'
section: Collection
---

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[![All together, mates! Let's sink 'em!, 1941 US poster: Commercial war poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/all-together-mates-lets-sink-em-packer-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/all-together-mates-lets-sink-em-packer-1941.jpg)

# All together, mates! Let's sink 'em!

Commercial war poster: a helmeted, muscular sailor in an undershirt grimly carries a large naval shell toward a gun crew, with shell bursts and gunfire on the sea behind. The headline 'All Together, Mates!' with 'Let's sink 'em!' calls the viewer into a shared effort (bandwagon), in action-illustration style.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
All Together,
Mates!
LET'S SINK 'EM!
[signature: Packer]
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
```

[← Aircraft of the R.A.F., Some Famous Types - II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aircraft-of-the-raf-famous-types-ii-1941/) ['Allons-y... Canadiens!' (Canadian Department of National War Services) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allons-y-canadiens-1941/)

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