Dish it out with the Navy
Navy recruiting poster: sailors work a deck gun, one in the foreground carrying a shell, under the headline 'Dish it out with the Navy!'. The foot adds 'Choose now while you can' and directs readers to a recruiting station. The appeal is to ordinary men doing the work of the gun crew; the technique is faint here, mostly a plain-folks image with a time-limited urging.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (artist: McClelland Barclay, USNR)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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-5 (NAID 513501).
Text on the object
[signature:] McCLELLAND BARCLAY USNR DISH IT OUT with THE NAVY! CHOOSE NOW WHILE YOU CAN GO TO YOUR NEAREST NAVY RECRUITING STATION TODAY [imprint:] ORDER No. 4
