Men of Valor - They Fight for You (Merchant Navy)
A helmeted figure in the foreground and a gunner behind him fire at a German aircraft over a convoy, above a Merchant Navy badge and a text naming Capt. Fred S. Slocombe and the icebreaker Montcalm. The tell is the named-individual account of a three-day battle and the heroic labels 'Men of valor' and 'heroic crew'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Wartime Information Board, Ottawa; artist Hubert Rogers
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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)
Wartime Information Board, Canada; artist Hubert Rogers, c. 1942-1945. U.S. National Archives (NAID 44267733).
Text on the object
MEN of VALOR They fight for you MERCHANT NAVY——Fourth Arm of the Service. Outfighting submarines and dive bombers in a three day battle, Capt. Fred S. Slocombe, M.B.E., and his heroic crew succeeded in delivering the icebreaker MONTCALM to Murmansk as a gift from Canada to the U.S.S.R. ISSUED BY WARTIME INFORMATION BOARD, OTTAWA. PRINTED IN CANADA WIB-5E
