Our Work Will Help Decide - 'Where Do We Go From Here?'
A coloured map of the Mediterranean and North Africa, with white arrows from Gibraltar to Moroccan and Algerian ports, sits inside a border of silhouetted weapons and equipment, under a banner with a lathe worker. The identity-fusion tell is 'OUR work will help decide', which ties the factory worker's output to the course of the campaign on the map.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Supply (poster no. 55)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Ministry of Supply, c. 1942 (undated). U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
OUR WORK WILL HELP DECIDE - "WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?" WATCH THE NEW MOVES ON THE MAP MINISTRY OF SUPPLY No 55
