Where skill and courage count
Signal Corps poster: a giant helmeted lineman-soldier stands over a burning village with a field telephone at his ear and a splice in his hand, telegraph poles at left. The oversized figure and the headline pair 'skill' and 'courage' with Signal Corps work at the front (glittering generalities).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Signal Corps; War Department, Bureau of Public Relations; artist Schlaikjer
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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. Army Signal Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-256 (NAID 513698).
Text on the object
"Where SKILL and COURAGE Count" SIGNAL CORPS UNITED STATES ARMY [signature: Schlaikjer 1942] [imprint: (c) WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS] [imprint: BROWN & BIGELOW, ST. PAUL, MINN., U.S.A.]
