Thanks for the Oakville - If You Hadn't Built Her We Couldn't Have Done It! How Soon Do We Get Another Oakville?
A uniformed naval officer speaks in a balloon, 'Thanks for the Oakville - if you hadn't built her we couldn't have done it!', beside a photograph of the corvette, a group portrait of seven crew and a reproduced press clipping 'U-boat rammed thrice by corvette Oakville then two leap aboard'. The tell (testimonial) is the officer's thanks to shipbuilders, followed by the question 'How soon do we get another Oakville?'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not printed (war-production appeal built on the corvette HMCS Oakville)
- 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, Labor, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (no imprint visible, 1939-1945 Canadian-context poster)
Issuer not printed (war-production appeal built on the corvette HMCS Oakville), National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-682.
Text on the object
THANKS FOR THE OAKVILLE IF YOU HADN'T BUILT HER- WE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT! [clipping:] U-BOAT RAMMED THRICE BY CORVETTE OAKVILLE THEN TWO LEAP ABOARD By GORDON SINCLAIR [body text partly cut off in the layout] HOW SOON DO WE GET ANOTHER OAKVILLE?
