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title: America's Fishing Fleet and Men... Assets to Victory
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americas-fishing-fleet-and-men-assets-to-victory-1943/
description: Three fishermen in oilskins haul a net heavy with fish onto a deck piled with catch, while a warship steams under a pale sky behind them.
section: Collection
---

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[![America's Fishing Fleet and Men... Assets to Victory, 1943 US poster: Three fishermen in oilskins haul a net heavy with fish](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/americas-fishing-fleet-and-men-assets-to-victory-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/americas-fishing-fleet-and-men-assets-to-victory-1943.jpg)

# America's Fishing Fleet and Men... Assets to Victory

Three fishermen in oilskins haul a net heavy with fish onto a deck piled with catch, while a warship steams under a pale sky behind them. The headline credits the fishing fleet as 'assets to victory': the work of ordinary tradesmen is tied to the navy and the war aim, plain-folks imagery joined with transfer.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
AMERICA'S
FISHING FLEET AND MEN
...ASSETS TO VICTORY
[signature: KOERNER]
OWI Poster No. 61.  Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-525393]
```

[← Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americans-will-always-fight-for-liberty-1943/) [...and bless those back home who, knowing of our sailing, kept that knowledge to themselves →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/and-bless-those-back-home-silence-means-security-1943/)

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