Deliver for "D" Day!
Photograph of troops climbing down a cargo net into landing craft crowded with helmeted soldiers, under a yellow panel quoting Vice Admiral R. K. Turner and the headline 'Deliver for "D" Day!'. The tell for testimonial is the named naval commander's quotation used to press war-production 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 5)
- 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, Industrial Incentive Division (Official Navy Poster NAVSHIPS 5). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-630 (NAID 514108).
Text on the object
"TROOPS ARE ONLY GOOD WHEN PUT ASHORE. IT'S OUR JOB TO PUT THEM THERE AND WE WILL." Vice Admiral R. K. TURNER, U.S.N. COMMANDER, U. S. NAVAL TASK FORCE, PACIFIC THEATER DELIVER FOR "D" DAY! OFFICIAL NAVY POSTER NAVSHIPS 5 [handwritten catalogue note:] classify - Navy incentive production - photo - [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 -O- 582884 Additional copies can be obtained from Industrial Incentive Division, Navy Department, Washington 17, D. C.
