American Military Posters

Sub Spotted—Let ’Em Have It: Barclay’s Navy Action Poster

McClelland Barclay puts the physical work of anti-submarine warfare at the centre of a 1942 recruiting image.

A naval gun crew and commanding red lettering make this recruiting design instantly readable.

The French Loan Rally edition uses a tank to promise victory through financial participation.

Bert Thomas turned a pun into a poster: a machine gun fed with war bonds, from the last great British bond drive of the First World War.

A French refugee designer drew the factory worker and the soldier as a single fighting unit, months before Pearl Harbor.

A munitions worker connects careful manufacturing with the effectiveness of weapons at sea.

A Canadian worker is asked to contribute twice: through production and through Victory Bonds.

This grouped design preserves three short First World War advertisements aimed at everyday travellers.

A miner and an infantryman stand back to back in a First World War appeal for fuel production.

How a presidential joke about the Doolittle Raid became a war stamp campaign, and then a real aircraft carrier.