Fish is a fighting food: we need more
An oversized hoist bucket spilling cod-like fish hangs over a harbour pier where two dockworkers haul on a rope, with the headline 'Fish is a fighting food' and the foot line 'We need more'. The poster calls a food 'fighting' and links dock labour and the dinner table to the war effort.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-369 (NAID 513819).
Text on the object
FISH IS A FIGHTING FOOD WE NEED MORE [crate lettering: KOERNER] OWI Poster No. 60. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—525392]
