Man your stations! Stick to your job - oil is ammunition
Portrait of a naval officer in a white-topped cap under a red banner reading MAN YOUR STATIONS, with a quoted fuel requirement over the printed signature of E. J. King. The tell is testimonial: the Navy's top admiral is quoted to tell oil-industry workers that staying at their jobs is part of the fight, so naval authority is lent to a civilian work request.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Petroleum Industry War Council (art by Ronald McLeod)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, 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)
Petroleum Industry War Council. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1330 (NAID 514977).
Text on the object
MAN YOUR STATIONS! "The Navy must have 16 million gallons of fuel a day to carry the fight to the enemy" [signature: E. J. King] COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE U. S. FLEET CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS [signature: RONALD McLEOD] Stick to your job - OIL IS AMMUNITION LITHO. IN U. S. A. PETROLEUM INDUSTRY WAR COUNCIL
