He volunteered for submarine service
Navy recruiting poster: a young woman in a striped blouse embraces a smiling sailor wearing a submarine-service pin and ribbons, over the line 'He volunteered for submarine service'. The image presents volunteering as admired and romantically rewarded; the technique is soft, resting on approval of the volunteer rather than a stated claim.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (issuer not named on sheet), artist Jon Whitcomb
- 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, Gender and suffrage
- 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-221 (NAID 513662).
Text on the object
He volunteered for SUBMARINE SERVICE [signature: Jon Whitcomb] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-566105]
