Join the Fighting Men of the U.S. Merchant Marine
Recruiting sheet for the U.S. Maritime Service: a photograph of ranks of apprentice seamen at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, beside a panel offering advancement and a trade. The technique is word and crowd: 'fighting men' and 'heroic job' are virtue words, and the massed ranks show many already enrolled.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Maritime Service
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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. Maritime Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1149 (NAID 514735).
Text on the object
Join the FIGHTING MEN OF THE U.S. MERCHANT MARINE [caption:] Some of the Thousands of Apprentice Seamen at Sheepshead Bay Training Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. OPPORTUNITY for... Advancement If you want a seagoing career, and learn a trade at the same time, enroll now for training with the U. S. Maritime Service. * Men of the U.S. Merchant Marine are doing a heroic job delivering supplies and war equipment to our fighting forces overseas. U.S. MARITIME SERVICE [seal:] UNITED STATES MARITIME SERVICE For information apply
