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title: Be a Ship's Officer
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-a-ships-officer-merchant-marine-cadet-corps-1943/
description: 'Recruiting sheet for the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps: a drawn profile of a young officer in a white cap looks up and away.'
section: Collection
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[![Be a Ship's Officer, 1943 US poster: Recruiting sheet for the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/be-a-ships-officer-merchant-marine-cadet-corps-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/be-a-ships-officer-merchant-marine-cadet-corps-1943.jpg)

# Be a Ship's Officer

Recruiting sheet for the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps: a drawn profile of a young officer in a white cap looks up and away, over a blue-toned photograph of cargo ships at sea. A white panel gives the address for cadet-midshipman enquiries. The technique is transfer: the uniform, the heroic profile and the convoy carry the prestige of the service onto the offer.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BE A SHIP'S OFFICER
For information to become a
CADET - MIDSHIPMAN
write to the
SUPERVISOR
U. S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
War Shipping Administration, Training Organization,
Washington (25), D. C.
U. S. MERCHANT MARINE CADET CORPS
AN OFFICIAL WAR MESSAGE
DISTRIBUTED BY THE OWI
[emblem motto:] ACTA NON VERBA
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-537805
```

[← Be a Marine: Free a Marine to Fight (vertical sheet)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-a-marine-free-a-marine-to-fight-1943-vertical/) [Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/be-a-victory-farm-volunteer-1943/)

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