World War II Posters: Buy bonds, Importance of the Merchant Marine, Rules at Sea

World War II Posters: Buy bonds, Importance of the Merchant Marine, Rules at Sea
(part 2)

Another tanker torpedoed off the Atlantic coast! poster

Another tanker torpedoed off the Atlantic coast!
Should brave men die so you can drive ...?
1942
U.S. Government Printing Office
Dimensions: 20 x 28 inches

Only Three miles out. "It ALL depends on ME" (in lower right hand corner)
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. (03/09/1943 - 08/31/1945)
National Archives NWDNS-44-PA-1465


Be Proud You're Delivering! "It ALL depends on ME" No other information	Your Bonds Buy Ships 4th War Loan Drive [The First Liberty Ship to visit Washington was the USMSTS American Mariner, training ship for advanced training at Sheepshead Bay and Officer Training at Ft. Trumbull. Jan.-Feb. 1944?] No other information


Stick to Your Job. Oil is Ammunition. Admiral Ernest King stresses the importance of oil production - which was delivered to the Navy oilers by merchant tankers. No other information	Stick to Your Job. Oil is Ammunition. General Eisenhower stresses the importance of oil production - which was delivered by merchant tankers. No other information


More than 5,500 Seamen Lost in Action Against the enemy! National Maritime Day U.S. Maritime Commission poster 1944	Bonds build Ships. Buy More Bonds Dimensions: 13 x 18 inches Artist: George Picken


On Rails... To ships... To Victory! Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. (03/09/1943 - 08/31/1945) National Archives NWDNS-44-PA-1449	We are United Nations: not armed forces alone carry on the struggle for victory. China's industry went underground to escape Jap bombs. United Nations merchant ships fought through submarine warfare, carrying arms. These, too, are heroes. [Photos of Chinese factory and ships sinking. Flags of ten Allied countries] Dimensions 39 x 26.5 in. Life Magazine (Chicago)


5000 Danish seamen sailing for United Nations on 800,000 tons of Danish ships Creator Dahl-Wolfe, Louise Dimensions: 32 x 24 inches	Norwegian sailors on the seven seas "worth far more than one million men, to the United Nations," said Admiral Land Dimensions: 22.5 x 17.75 inches


We've Just Begun to fight! Artist: Packer Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. (03/09/1943 - 08/31/1945) National Archives NWDNS-44-PA-2389	Bombs Away! Stick to Your Job - Oil is Ammunition. Artist: McLeod Dimensions: 24x18 inches Four star General U.S. Army Air Forces Hap Arnold says “We must have millions of gallons of gasoline a day to do our job.” Petroleum War Council.


Special Delivery for Freedom. National Maritime Day 1944 Artist: Charles Alston Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. News Bureau. (1942 - 1945) National Archives NWDNS-208-COM-147	Our Liberty Fleet in the Vanguard for Democracy!! U.S. Maritime Commission names third ship for pioneer Negro publisher. S.S. Robert L. Vann, S.S. Robert S. Abbott, S.S. John H. Murphy Artist: Charles Alston Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. News Bureau. (1942 - 1945) National Archives NWDNS-208-COM-146

United Seamen's Service: USS shares in the National War Fund
Dimensions: 22 x 30 inches
The squares represent the letters "U" "S" "S" using International Marine Signal Flags, as used by ships at sea.


York is with the fleet. There's material we've built in every convoy York Refrigeration company. Office for Emergency Management. War Production Board. (01/1942 - 11/03/1945) National Archives NWDNS-179-WP-987	Life-Line of Freedom - the Merchant Marine Artist: Paul Sample Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. (03/09/1943 - 08/31/1945) National Archives: 44-PA-1287


Men Aganst Torpedoes. Fighters in Dungarees United Seamen's Service No other information.	Merchant Marine Drives for Victory Winning Dec. Slogan - Reinhold T. Marvin Sec. E-4 Check $4 No other information.


Our Boys Fighting in the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Corps & Merchant Marines Need 12,000,000 tons Scrap Metal 24,000,000,000 Pounds in November. Will You Help? "Pounds Per Day Will Keep The Japs Away" The Junior Citizens Service Corps Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches	Notice to all Merchant Marine Personnel Aboard [Notice posted in merchant ships prohibiting keeping of diaries or carrying letters for others. SS John A. Dix]


Grace Line War Service Today… with faith in a Greater Tomorrow! Dimensions: 13 x 18 inches Artist: Unknown	Grace Line Pays Tribute to Its Gallant Officers and Crews No other information. [Also used as advertisement] No other information.


If you Can't Go Across.. Come Across! Buy War Bonds Published by Abbott Laboratories No other information.	Heed their Call. . . With War Bonds [Inset: Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal Awarded Cadet-Midshipman William M. Thomas, Jr Action at New Caldonia [November 8, 1942] Artist: C. C. Beall of Colliers Weekly [Also used as cover of Collier's magazine December 11, 1943] Printer: Carey Press Corp. 05-25-44 Dimensions: 13 x 16 inches

Liberty Ships Are There!
Telegram
U.S. Maritime Commission
Office of the Chairman

The following cable from London tells a story of direct interest to every man and woman whose war job is connected in any way with the construction or operation of our American merchant fleet.

Hundreds of american Liberty ships form backbone supply lines to beachheads. First supply convoy Normandy coast all Liberties. Some English ports packed with them. channel has become Liberty ship lane. Every U.S. shipyard represented in unending procession. Supply ships manned by U.S. Merchant Marine Officers and men carrying troops and materiel. Seamen, soldiers, stevedores, navy landing barge crew working teams unloading. You played an inportant, but silent part in preinvasion preparation.

Our fighters can't have too much at the beachheads. Let's keep giving them all we've got.

Signed E. S. Land
Chairman U.S. Maritime Commission


Enemy Sighted.... let's Stick Together we're all in the same Boat! No other information.	Finished? Hell NO! Japs Claim They Sank Them! But a Lot of Guys Died to Save them Get "Em Back in Action - Fast! No other information.


"My job is to see that the stuff you guys make gets over. Risky business? Sure! But freedom is worth it." Produce for Victory! 1942 Dimensions: 24 x 36 inches Artist: Unknown Publisher: The Sheldon-Claire Co., Chicago	"5000 Danish seamen sailing for United Nations on 800,000 tons of Danish ships" 1945 Dimensions:19 x 35 inches Artist: Unknown


The merchant seamen of many of the United Nations: have played heroic roles on plodding, weapon-laden convoys. The Panama Canal important in peacetime trade is even more vital in speeding the weapons and the goods of war.Life Lines [Photos of ships in convoy and locks on the Panama Canal. Flags of ten Allied countries] Dimensions 39 x 26.5 in. Life Magazine (Chicago)

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