Naval Aviation has a place for you
Navy aviation recruiting poster: a painted sailor in a white cap stands beside the huge landing-gear wheel of a flying boat, with a fleet and aircraft in the background. The text lists trades and says 'apply today'. The technique is faint; an ordinary rating at everyday work is shown as the person the Navy wants (plain-folks).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (artist McClelland Barclay, USNR)
- 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. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-26 (NAID 513521).
Text on the object
Naval Aviation has a place for You... * Pilots * Machinist's Mates * Radiomen * Metalsmiths * Ordnancemen Learn the right way ~ the Navy way apply today [signature: McClelland Barclay USNR]
