With Your Help We'll Beat This in the North Atlantic
Photographs of ice-coated warship fittings sit over a cutaway drawing of depth-charge rails modified for Arctic conditions, under the headline 'With your help we'll beat this in the North Atlantic'. The 'we' folds the viewer into the navy's effort, while the poster does not say what help is asked of the reader.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Canadian Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired; no URAA restoration)
Department of Munitions and Supply (Canada), c. 1940-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
With your help we'll BEAT THIS in the NORTH ATLANTIC CANVAS SIDE APRONS TOP COVER PLATE EQUIPPED FOR ARCTIC CONDITIONS STEAM PIPE LEAD - COILED AS INDICATED D.C. EQUIPMENT MODIFICATION TO DEPTH CHARGE RAILS FOR ARCTIC CONDITIONS APPROVED BY NAVAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CENSOR NAVAL CONSTRUCTION CHANGES EXPLAINED This message is issued by the Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada
