Enlist your skill for victory
Navy recruiting poster: two sailors in work clothes handle a pneumatic tool beside a warship, with 'Enlist your skill for victory' and 'Keep the fleet in fighting trim with the Navy's Ship Repair Units'. Ordinary tradesmen are shown as the model recruit, with the acronym S-R-U picked out in large letters.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Ship Repair Units
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, 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, Ship Repair Units. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-13 (NAID 513509).
Text on the object
ENLIST YOUR SKILL FOR VICTORY Keep the fleet in fighting trim WITH THE NAVY'S Ship Repair Units Workers 18 to 38! Ask about new plan of Voluntary Induction - SEE YOUR NEAREST NAVY RECRUITING STATION - [imprint:] ORDER NO. 52 [imprint:] NAVPERS-NRB-19041-23 OCT 41-20M
