Help keep it great! Freshmen! Sophomores! Stay in college and become a Naval Officer
U.S. Navy college-student recruiting poster: a large waving U.S. flag above a blue panel addressed to freshmen and sophomores, urging them to stay in college and become a naval officer, with a tag 'Consult your Navy V-1 faculty advisor'. The tell is the flag, a transfer device, behind the slogan 'Help keep it great!'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy
- 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, Home front
- 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-21 (NAID 513516).
Text on the object
HELP KEEP IT GREAT! Freshmen! Sophomores! stay in college and become a NAVAL OFFICER CONSULT YOUR NAVY V-1 FACULTY ADVISOR OR SEE YOUR NEAREST RECRUITING STATION FOR FULL DETAILS [imprint: NRB-32626-6-1-42-15M]
