Voulez-Vous un Second Front? Alors, Construisez des Navires de Guerre! Les Navires Hâteront la Victoire
Four close-up faces of working men in work caps and goggles are drawn above a dark warship against a yellow ray background, with the French text asking whether the viewer wants a second front and answering 'build warships'. The tell for plain-folks is the workers' faces as the warrant for the request; for glittering generalities it is the slogan that ships 'will hasten victory', given without any figure.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Not stated on the item; issuer not established (French-language wartime shipbuilding poster)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Transnational
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- No single regime or leader
- Leader
- No single regime or leader
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Issuer not stated. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-794.
Text on the object
Voulez-vous un Second Front? Alors, construisez des Navires de Guerre! LES NAVIRES HÂTERONT LA VICTOIRE [Translation: Do you want a Second Front? Then build warships! Ships will hasten victory.]
