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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Coast Guard; artist L. W. Beytley (U.S.C.G.R.)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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)
U.S. Coast Guard. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1713 (NAID 515384).
Text on the object
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.
