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Give Us Lumber for More PT’s — Paper Print

Price range: $49.00 through $179.00

A 1943 U.S. Army poster for the lumber camps, restored: PT boat 34 charges through the night sea, searchlight blazing, as an enemy warship explodes behind it. A wide, dramatic landscape print.

Paper or framed print
Unframed or framed, printed to order in the USA. Landscape format.

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Made to order. All sales final. Replacements or refunds only for damaged, faulty or incorrect prints reported within 7 days. Returns policy

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  • Free Standard shipping to the US
  • Printed to order in the USA, paper or framed
  • Quality promise: damaged, faulty or incorrect prints replaced if reported within 7 days (details)
Paper & printing

Giclée print on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper: a smooth, natural-white fine-art stock with no glare, so the restored colours read true under any light.

Each print has a slim white border and is supplied unframed, ready for a standard frame or hanging clips.

Shipping & returns

Every print is made to order. Standard shipping to the US is free; Express is available at checkout. You will get tracking details by email when your print is on its way.

Because each print is custom-made, all sales are final and we do not accept change-of-mind returns. If your print arrives damaged, has a production fault or is the wrong item, tell us within 7 days of delivery with photos and we will send a free replacement.

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Which size should I choose?

11.7 × 16.5 in suits a desk, shelf or gallery wall. 20 × 28 in works above a desk, console or bed. 23.4 × 33.1 in is a statement piece above a sofa or in a hallway.

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Framing

Framed prints come in a solid wood, satin-finish frame in black, white or natural wood, glazed with shatterproof acrylic. The print is the same 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper as our unframed editions.

Framed artwork sizes are 12 × 17 in, 20 × 28 in and 23 × 33 in (the frame adds a little to each side). Every frame is made to order in the USA and arrives with a hook fitted, ready to hang.

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Restoration

Before & after

Drag the divider to compare the archival source scan with our restored edition. Tears, stains, fading and paper damage were repaired by hand while keeping the original artwork, lettering and colors true to the period.

Your print is made from the restored edition on the right.

Give Us Lumber for More PT’s — Paper Print restored edition
Give Us Lumber for More PT’s — Paper Print archival source
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Each size is shown to scale on the same wall. Prints are unframed and made to order.

Description

The Give Us Lumber for More PT’s poster

Give Us Lumber for More PT’s was issued by the U.S. Army in 1943, and the Army seal sits in the bottom left corner. A Navy PT boat, number 34, races straight at the viewer through green seas with its searchlight cutting the night, while an enemy warship explodes behind it in a wall of orange flame. It was a poster for the lumber industry, not for recruiting. PT boats were built mainly of wood, and the Army and Navy needed far more timber than the mills were producing, so posters like this one were sent to logging camps and sawmills to keep output up.

The boat in the painting was real. PT-34 was an Elco boat of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three in the Philippines. In March 1942 it carried senior officers from Corregidor to Mindanao during the evacuation of General MacArthur, and on the night of 8 April 1942, under Lieutenant Robert B. Kelly, it attacked the Japanese cruiser Kuma off Cebu. The next day Japanese floatplanes caught it, and the crew beached and lost the boat.

The painting is attributed to Peter Helck (1893 to 1988), the New York illustrator best known for his paintings of early motor racing. The original was printed at about 40 by 28½ inches.

Read the full history of the poster and PT-34.

Restored edition

Restored from a photograph of an original 1943 print. The paint was cleaned and the colour brought back, with folds, stains and wear removed. The lettering, the Army seal and the artist’s mark are kept from the original. Drag the before and after slider below to compare.

Sizes and options

This is a landscape poster: every print is wider than it is tall. A 20 × 28 in print hangs 28 inches wide and 20 inches tall.

  • Paper print: 16.5 × 11.7 in, 28 × 20 in or 33.1 × 23.4 in (width × height)
  • Framed print: 17 × 12 in, 28 × 20 in or 33 × 23 in, in a black, white or natural wood frame, ready to hang

Printed to order in the USA on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Art paper. Free Standard shipping to the US. Compare the print sizes.

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