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title: Setting the course to Victory with the U.S. Coast Guard
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/setting-the-course-to-victory-coast-guard-1942/
description: 'Coast Guard recruiting-style painting: an officer in a white cap looks upward beside a sailor in a white hat who grips a ship''s wheel.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Setting the course to Victory with the U.S. Coast Guard, 1942 US poster: Coast Guard recruiting-style painting](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/setting-the-course-to-victory-coast-guard-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/setting-the-course-to-victory-coast-guard-1942.jpg)

# Setting the course to Victory with the U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard recruiting-style painting: an officer in a white cap looks upward beside a sailor in a white hat who grips a ship's wheel, with binoculars on the officer's chest. The text reads 'Setting the course to Victory with the U.S. Coast Guard'. The tell is the large script word 'Victory', a virtue word, tied to the service.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SETTING THE COURSE TO
Victory
WITH THE U.S. COAST GUARD
[signature:] L. W. Beytley 42
U.S.C.G.R.
[imprint:] 42-43
[imprint:] LITHO. IN U.S.A.
```

[← Sept. 1939 - Sept. 1942: Facts Emphasize Britain's Unflinching Purpose After 3 Hard Years of War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sept-1939-sept-1942-britains-unflinching-purpose-uk-1942/) [Sewing electrically heated flying suits with a smile, so that our boys can make it hot for the Axis. This is our war! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sewing-electrically-heated-flying-suits-this-is-our-war-1942/)

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