Land with the U.S. Marines
Marine Corps recruiting strip: a crowded rubber landing boat of helmeted, rifle-carrying men is paddled through surf, with the script headline 'Land with the U.S. Marines' wrapped around it. The technique is faint; the closest is bandwagon, since the viewer is invited to join a packed, shared effort, followed by an instruction to apply at a recruiting station.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Marine Corps (artist Vic Guinness, USMC; printed by McCandlish Litho Corporation, Philadelphia)
- 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. Marine Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1238 (NAID 514844).
Text on the object
Land with the U.S. MARINES APPLY, OR WRITE, TO THE NEAREST RECRUITING STATION [signature: Vic Guinness USMC] [imprint: 9-18-42 REG'N No. 2118 20M] [imprint: LITHO. IN U.S.A. McCANDLISH LITHO CORPORATION, PHILA. PA.]
