Only 3 miles out: "it ALL depends on ME"
Photographic poster: an aerial view of a freighter and a second vessel burning at sea under a mass of black smoke, with 'only 3 miles out' in red script and a quoted line, 'it ALL depends on ME', at lower right. The fear-appeal is the burning ships close to shore, paired with a first-person duty line; the sheet names no sponsor or specific ask.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Illinois Photo-Gravure Co. / International News Service (issuing agency not printed)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
Illinois Photo-Gravure Co. / International News Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1465 (NAID 515129).
Text on the object
only 3 miles out "it ALL depends on ME" [imprint:] © Illinois Photo-Gravure Co. International News Service CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
