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title: On Deck with the United States Navy
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description: 'Photo-montage sheet titled ''On Deck with the United States Navy'': a central circular photograph of sailors in dress whites standing inspection on a ship''s'
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# On Deck with the United States Navy

Photo-montage sheet titled 'On Deck with the United States Navy': a central circular photograph of sailors in dress whites standing inspection on a ship's deck, ringed by eight captioned photographs of deck life, a Sunday service, seamanship and a passing junk. The technique is faint here; the sheet shows a selected, favourable set of scenes from navy life.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ON DECK
with the
UNITED STATES NAVY
[caption:] The spacious deck of a battleship provides ample room for witnessing boxing and wrestling bouts.
[caption:] "MANNING THE RAIL" - an honor extended to the President of a Republic or to the Ruler, or Member of the Royal Family, of a sovereign State.
[caption:] On board U.S.S. PENNSYLVANIA (a battleship), native Hawaiians entertain the crew.
[caption:] OBSERVING THE SABBATH - Every Sunday, with the sky as a canopy and colored flags for stained windows, the Chaplain conducts Divine Service.
[caption:] The Captain's routine weekly inspection of personnel on board the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. SARATOGA.
[caption:] During tactical exercises men are grouped on deck for an unobstructed view of the Fleet as it plows through long Pacific swells.
[caption:] "Handycraft" - A decorative canvas trimming of more than five thousand clove hitches being made for one of the ship's fast motor boats.
[caption:] SEAMANSHIP - A seasoned petty officer instructs members of his force in knot-tying, demonstrating the use of the various knots.
[caption:] In far off China, men pause to observe a passing junk as it heads out to sea.
[imprint: NRB-27793-7-2-40-9500. #425]
```

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