![Men of Valor: They Fight for You [3], 1943 Canada poster: A Canadian-shouldered airman shields his eyes at a shattered](../images/canada-men-of-valor-they-fight-for-you-rogers-1943.jpg)
Men of Valor: They Fight for You [3]
A Canadian-shouldered airman shields his eyes at a shattered cockpit window, with a swastika-marked convoy ship below, over a citation for Squadron-Leader Ralph McLaren Christie, R.C.A.F., awarded the D.S.O. The named award transfers a decorated airman's prestige to the home-front viewer ('They fight for you'), and 'skill and daring of high degree' is a virtue phrase.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- 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
- Commemorate
- Themes
- War and the military, 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)
Wartime Information Board (Canada); artist Hubert Rogers, 1943. U.S. National Archives, World War II Foreign Posters (NAID 44267735).
Text on the object
MEN of VALOR They fight for you “FOR SKILL AND DARING OF HIGH DEGREE” F/L (now Squadron-Leader) Ralph McLaren Christie, R.C.A.F., was awarded the D.S.O. He led a force of bombers in an attack on a heavily armed enemy convoy off the Dutch coast. Though his aircraft was seriously damaged and difficult to control he pressed home the attack at deck level, then returned to base and made a skillful crash landing. ISSUED BY WARTIME INFORMATION BOARD, OTTAWA. PRINTED IN CANADA UE-9 [sleeve patch:] CANADA [signature:] HUBERT ROGERS '43 OTTAWA
