Navy Poster To Attract Candidates

The Navy has a long tradition and needs to keep replenishing itself. Along with the other armed forces, it needs to have recruitment campaigns. The Navy poster, that anyone can buy prints of, shows how different wording and images have been used to persuade people to join the ranks. There are also posters that cater for the nostalgia market, showing ships and Navy airplanes from the past. Some of the prints are taken from the original tin signs. Artists have also painted the Navy fleet from a purely artistic viewpoint.

There is an old black and white picture of a Trainer Biplane and more recent photographs of patrol bombers. Another monochrome picture shows four airships in formation. Paintings in color show a Grunman Navy Fighter plane and an XPBS-1 taking off from the sea. There is also one of a Tomcat Fighter.

Ships are of course, what people mostly associate with the Navy and there is a Navy poster to represent battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines from the past and present. One print shows a montage of different battleships that have operated over the years.

Different slogans carry the recruitment message. One picture of an aircraft carrier has the tag, welcome aboard. Another World War II Navy poster shows an officer saying, I want you. There is a line drawing of an aircraft carrier in the Art Deco style, which states, join modern mobile mighty Navy. Another old print shows a group of men doing shore drill. For people interested in the organization and ranking of the service, there is a poster that shows all the different Navy insignia.

Away from recruitment and categorizing the Navy, there are the pictures from the distant past and the ones that depict a certain period in time. There is a painting of sail powered ships in harbor called America's Fledgling Navy 1800. Three types of Navy poster show ships sitting peacefully in their yards. There is the Navy Docks at Key West, Florida, the battleship in the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, New York City and the submarine at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington.

None of these posters have a smoking gun or show any sea battles or dog fights in the air with Navy planes. However, there is one unusual poster that seems peculiar if it's meant to recruit anyone. Obviously inspired by that famous scene from the movie, Dr. Strangelove, a sailor sits astride a torpedo and the poster proclaims, join the Navy.