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title: Extra. Your Country Needs You in the U.S. Navy at Once
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/extra-your-country-needs-you-in-the-us-navy-1918/
description: A text-only blue-and-white sheet styled as a newspaper 'Extra', with a boxed headline calling on readers to join the US Navy at once.
section: Collection
---

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# Extra. Your Country Needs You in the U.S. Navy at Once

A text-only blue-and-white sheet styled as a newspaper 'Extra', with a boxed headline calling on readers to join the US Navy at once, followed by six New York recruiting addresses. The urgency of the 'Extra' format and the direct address 'Your country needs you' stand in for any argument; the practical addresses make the sheet a call to act immediately.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
EXTRA
YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU
IN THE
U.S. NAVY
AT ONCE
APPLY AT RECRUITING STATIONS:
34 EAST 23D ST.   130 WEST ST.
1129 SECOND AVE.   225 WEST 42D ST.
108 EAST 125TH ST.   394 EAST 150TH ST.
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY N[torn]L[torn] RECRUITING
J. H. TOOKER PRINT CO. N.Y.
```

NARA's title reads 'Navt' for 'Navy'; the sheet reads NAVY. Letters of the imprint line are lost to a tear.

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