Deliver for "D" Day!
Photograph of a landing ship with its bow doors open and troops walking ashore past a tank on a rocky beach, under a yellow panel quoting Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk and the headline 'Deliver for "D" Day!'. The tell for testimonial is the named naval commander's quotation used to press shipyard workers to meet delivery schedules.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Industrial Incentive Division (Official Navy Poster NAVSHIPS 6)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 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 Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-201 (NAID 513645).
Text on the object
[quote panel:] "THE WAR HAS NOW REACHED THE STAGE OF CONTINUOUS AMPHIBIOUS OFFENSIVES." Rear Admiral ALAN G. KIRK, U.S.N. COMMANDER, U. S. NAVAL TASK FORCE, EUROPEAN THEATER DELIVER FOR "D" DAY! OFFICIAL NAVY POSTER NAVSHIPS 6 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 -O- 502884 Additional copies can be obtained from Industrial Incentive Division, Navy Department, Washington 17, D. C.
