Liberty ships are there!
Sheet laid out as an official telegram under the headline 'Liberty ships are there!', with a beachhead photograph whose black arrows point to ships offshore. The tell is the reported cable from London and the chairman's signature, which put eyewitness and official voices behind the ask to keep up war work.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Maritime Commission, Office of the Chairman
- 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, 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 Commission, Office of the Chairman. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1285 (NAID 514891).
Text on the object
LIBERTY SHIPS ARE THERE! STANDARD FORM NO. 14 APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT MARCH 10, 1926 FROM U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION BUREAU OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN CHG. APPROPRIATION TELEGRAM OFFICIAL BUSINESS ---- GOVERNMENT RATES XA 723 19 WASHINGTON D C 14 THE FOLLOWING CABLE FROM LONDON TELLS A STORY OF DIRECT INTEREST TO EVERY MAN AND WOMAN WHOSE WAR JOB IS CONNECTED IN ANY WAY WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OR OPERATION OF OUR AMERICAN MERCHANT FLEET:- WA 151 JB52 P49 86 435P 14 VIA CIAL WSA PRESS CORPS WASHINGTON DC HUNDREDS AMERICAN LIBERTY SHIPS FORM BACKBONE SUPPLY LINES TO BEACHHEADS. FIRST SUPPLY CONVOY NORMANDY COAST ALL LIBERTIES. SOME ENGLISH PORTS PACKED WITH THEM. CHANNEL HAS BECOME LIBERTY SHIP LANE. EVERY U. S. SHIPYARD REPRESENTED IN UNENDING PROCESSION. SUPPLY SHIPS MANNED BY U. S. MERCHANT MARINE OFFICERS AND MEN CARRYING TROOPS AND MATERIEL. SEAMEN, SOLDIERS, STEVEDORES, NAVY LANDING BARGE CREWS WORKING IN TEAMS UNLOADING. WSA PLAYED IMPORTANT BUT SILENT PART IN PREINVASION PREPARATIONS. signed - DONOGHUE - WSA OUR FIGHTERS CAN'T HAVE TOO MUCH AT THE BEACHHEADS. LET'S KEEP GIVING THEM ALL WE'VE GOT! E. S. LAND CHAIRMAN - U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION [handwritten:] Maritime [imprint:] H-0258
