# WWII Propaganda Posters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723 "2009-09-03T04:01:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/1 "2009-09-03T04:01:46Z")
See them [here](http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/27932/wwii-intense-propaganda-posters). [This one](http://www.life.com/image/3230558/in-gallery/27932/wwii-intense-propaganda-posters) is particularly interesting because it features Dorie Miller, who was played by Cuba Gooding Jr. in _Pearl Harbor_. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/2 "2009-09-03T04:22:26Z")
Not from the same collection, but I’ve always liked [this one.](http://library.marshallfoundation.org/posters/library/posters/poster_full.php?poster=460) Along with [these](http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/ww2/ww47prt.html) [two](http://www.posterart.com/ourposters/thisisyourfriendchina.html). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/3 "2009-09-03T04:27:46Z")
As a former member of the Civil Air Patrol, I appreciate poster #25. From [the official site of the U.S. Air Force](http://www.af.mil/information/transcripts/story.asp?storyID=123032865) (emphasis mine): > [@](#): > > By 1943, Civil Air Patrol coastal patrols had flown 244,600 hours totaling 24 million miles (38.6 million kilometers), summoning help for 91 ships in distress and aiding in the rescue of 363 survivors of submarine attacks. **CAP patrols spotted 173 enemy submarines, attacking 57 with bombs or depth charges, damaging 10 and sinking two.** I’ve read that the sinking of _U-166_ was credited to a CAP pilot; but one site suggests that _U-166_ was sunk two or three days earlier in a Naval action, and that the CAP pilot actually made an unsuccessful attack on _U-171_. Still I do remember hearing that the CAP sunk one sub, and one German U-boat commander cursed ‘those damned yellow airplanes’; not to mention damaging ten subs, which adversely affected their missions. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/4 "2009-09-03T04:41:37Z")
Wow, how has that ‘Liberators’ one not been re-used recently? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/5 "2009-09-03T06:06:42Z")
A bit earlier than WWII, but I’ve got a vintage copy of [this](http://www.mainememory.net/media/images/450/75/15120.JPG) poster hanging on my wall. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/6 "2009-09-03T12:08:34Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > A bit earlier than WWII, but I’ve got a vintage copy of [this](http://www.mainememory.net/media/images/450/75/15120.JPG) poster hanging on my wall. I prefer [this one](http://www.digitaldesk.org/projects/secondary/propaganda/destroy_brute.html), from the same era. 😃 I really outta get back to finishing the photoshop job I was doing for an updated version… ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/7 "2009-09-03T12:18:13Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > Wow, how has that ‘Liberators’ one not been re-used recently? I am _so_ getting a Star of David loincloth. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/8 "2009-09-03T14:19:07Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ..not to mention damaging ten subs, which adversely affected their missions. Actually, any attack that caused the sub to have to submerge was a good one. A sub’s search radius is much smaller when submerged (periscope) than when surfaced (lookouts on bridge with binoculars), and there’s a good chance the quarry could sail out of sight. Plus WWII subs were much slower submerged than surfaced. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/9 "2009-09-03T14:21:23Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Not from the same collection, but I’ve always liked [this one.](http://library.marshallfoundation.org/posters/library/posters/poster_full.php?poster=460) That’s one tough-looking Chinese woman. > [@Ranchoth](#): > > …Along with [these](http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/ww2/ww47prt.html) [two](http://www.posterart.com/ourposters/thisisyourfriendchina.html). I always loved the similar one showing the Canadian. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-propaganda-posters/508723/10 "2009-09-03T17:17:11Z")
for a few years I was really into WW2 propaganda. My walls were covered in them. Right now I only have the Kultu-Terror anti-American one up in the hobby room. (ETA: this poster is called also known as"Liberators" and is the first one in the op) One of my favorite’s is Churchill’s head on a bulldog body that says “Hold the Line”