Fight - Let's go! Join the Navy
Navy recruiting poster: a sailor with a sea bag on his shoulder strides up a gangway, flanked by eight small photographs of destroyers, cruisers, a PT boat, a submarine and aircraft carriers, with the words 'fight Let's Go! Join the NAVY'. The ship photographs present the service's strength and the slogan is a direct call to act.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (artist McClellan Barclay, USNR, as signed)
- 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 (artist Barclay). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-16 (NAID 513512).
Text on the object
fight Let's Go! Join the NAVY MODERN STREAMLINED DESTROYER U.S.S. MUSTIN LATE TYPE HIGH SPEED CRUISER U.S.S. ATLANTA HARD HITTING CRAFT CRUISER U.S.S. ASTORIA U.S.S. LEXINGTON AS SEEN FROM ANOTHER CARRIER P.T. BOAT, A "MOSQUITO" WITH A DEADLY STING LONG RANGE FLEET SUBMARINE U.S.S. SHARK A GREYHOUND OF THE SEA, DESTROYER U.S.S. FARRAGUT A DIVISION OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS IN COLUMN [signature:] McClellan Barclay USNR [imprint:] NRB-31348-1-20-42-15M #434
