After seeing these boys in the air and on the ground
Poster with a large drawn portrait of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker above a smoke-filled horizon and a small raft of men on open sea. A quotation attributed to him says that swapping combat troops and war workers would double production in 30 days. The technique is a testimonial from a well-known airman, with the raft scene adding a peril cue for factory workers.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc., New York; artist Packer
- 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
- 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)
Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc., New York; artist Packer. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-309 (NAID 513756).
Text on the object
"After seeing these boys in the air and on the ground—working as they are, 24 hours the clock around in the most unbelievable conditions... I have come to the conclusion that if you brought a combat troop back overnight to America—transferred them into the factories and sent the present war workers out into their position,—you would have your production doubled in 30 days' time. I mean that!" Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker [signature:] PACKER PRINTED IN U.S.A. Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
