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title: Our Navy Strikes Back!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-navy-strikes-back-1942/
description: 'Photo-montage poster: six U.S. Navy photographs of burning Japanese ships and carrier crews under the headline ''Our Navy Strikes Back!''.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs of burning ships and combat at sea. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Our Navy Strikes Back!, 1942 US poster: Photo-montage poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-navy-strikes-back-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-navy-strikes-back-1942.jpg)

# Our Navy Strikes Back!

Photo-montage poster: six U.S. Navy photographs of burning Japanese ships and carrier crews under the headline 'Our Navy Strikes Back!', with a red disc quoting Franklin D. Roosevelt and a base line 'Save Scrap to Sink the Axis'. Only successful engagements are shown, and the quote and photographs are tied to the scrap-collection request.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
MARSHALL ISLANDS: A JAPANESE BOMBER HAS JUST TRIED A SUICIDE
DIVE ON THIS AIRCRAFT CARRIER. TENSE FACES WATCH IT PLUNGE
INTO THE SEA AFTER SHEARING TAIL FROM PLANE IN BACKGROUND.
KISKA, ALASKA: A DIRECT HIT BY
A U.S. PLANE SINKS A JAPANESE
TRANSPORT IN THE HARBOR OF KISKA.
OUR NAVY STRIKES BACK!
MIDWAY: JAPANESE HEAVY CRUISER BOMBED BY U.S. CARRIER-BASED AIRCRAFT.
"WHERE IS
THE U.S. NAVY?"
"IT IS CARRYING OUT THE
COMMAND TO HIT OUR ENEMY
AND HIT HIM AGAIN WHERE-
EVER AND WHENEVER
WE FIND HIM."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
CORAL SEA: U.S. NAVY PLANES SET JAPANESE CARRIER
AFIRE. WING OF DEPARTING U.S. PLANE SHOWN AT RIGHT.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: TANAMBOGO ISLAND AFTER OUR
NAVAL AIR FORCES LEFT THEIR CALLING CARDS.
U.S. ANTI-AIRCRAFT CREW FIGHT OFF A JAPANESE
SUICIDE PLUNGE ON THEIR AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
[imprint: OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOS]
SAVE SCRAP TO SINK THE AXIS
[imprint: COMPILED AND EDITED FROM OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHS]
[imprint: PHOTO NEWS DISPLAY CORP., 15 EAST 40th STREET, N. Y. C.]
```

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