Join the Fighting Men of the U.S. Merchant Marine

U.S. Maritime Service

Dimensions: 41.75 x 28 inches

1943

U. S. Government Printing Office: 1943--O-504474

National Archives: 44 PA-1149

Inset: "Opportunity for Advancement • If you want a seagoing career, and learn a trade at the same time, enroll now for training with the U.S. Maritime Service. Men of the U.S. Merchant Marine are doing a heroic job delivering supplies and war equipment to our fighting forces overseas.• Some of the thousands of Apprentice Seamen at Sheepshead Bay Training Station, Brooklyn, N.Y." [Posters such as this fooled many young men into thinking were joining a branch of the Navy or Coast Guard]

Calling all seamen!

You are needed at sea now!

If you hold or have held a License as Mate, Engineer, or Radio Operator, or certificate as Able-Bodied Seaman, write or wire collect to --

U.S. Merchant Marine, Washington, D.C. or apply at any U.S. Employment Service Office or any Recruitment and Manning Organization

Port Office of War Shipping Administration ... Today

Dimensions: 20 x 14.5 inches

Published [Washington, D.C.] 1944

U. S. Government Printing Office : 1944 O-592816

National Archives: 287-MC-1.25: Se-1

[The poster depicts a Chinese-American seaman in an appeal to minorities and former seamen to return to sea]