Content note: Wartime Canadian collage reproducing newspaper headlines that use ethnic slurs for Italians ('Wops'), shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Thanks for H.M.C.S. Regina
A photograph of the corvette H.M.C.S. Regina sits over a collage of newspaper clippings about her sinking an Italian submarine, above a red banner asking 'Shall brave men die because you faltered?' The banner places the lives of the crew on the viewer's conduct (fear-appeal), and the collage shows only the success story (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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)
Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
It takes a good ship to sink a sub.! 'We Cleaned Up Sub Quickly', Corvette Captain Says Only 1 Man Wounded As Regina Kills Sub 'DOING JOB WELL' PRAISE TO REGINA FOR SINKING SUB H.M.C.S. Regina "Erases" Italian U-Boat In To Score Canada's Third Naval Victory [cropped: illegible] CANADIAN CORVETTE SINKS SUB, NABS CREW Sub Blasted To Surface Italians Yelp "Friends" As Canucks Rain Shells Wops Captured in Third Naval Victory Scored [cropped: illegible] Canadian Corvette in Mediterranean in Brief Span - "Classic Example of Sub- marine Fighting," Says London [partial headline at right:] [illegible]RONTO MEDIC [illegible]MAINED MUM [illegible]OUT SINKING [body columns of the clippings: partly cropped, not transcribed] Thanks for H.M.C.S. REGINA This message is issued by the Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada. SHALL BRAVE MEN DIE BECAUSE YOU FALTERED?
