America Calling: Take your place in Civilian Defense
Civilian Defense recruiting poster: a large photographed bald eagle in flight over blue and red brush stripes, with the headline 'America Calling' and the line 'Take your place in Civilian Defense'. The eagle as national emblem carries the appeal (transfer), alongside a broad patriotic call with no specific task named.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office for Emergency Management, Division of Information (photograph by Arthur H. Fisher)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- 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)
Office for Emergency Management. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-344 (NAID 513794).
Text on the object
[imprint:] DIVISION OF INFORMATION OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C. AMERICA CALLING Take your place in Civilian Defense CD [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941 PHOTOGRAPHED BY ARTHUR H. FISHER [signature:] herbert matter (pencil, top right)
