{"product_id":"affiche-vintage-u-s-navy-detection-sous-marine-de-280","title":"Death on Subs! (1943) U.S. Navy poster - Jon Whitcomb","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDeath on Subs!, an official U.S. Navy poster\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated by Jon Whitcomb and published in 1943 by Lutz \u0026amp; Sheinkman for the U.S. Navy’s Industrial Incentive Division, this Second World War poster addressed manufacturers of equipment for destroyer escorts. Its message frames the Battle of the Atlantic as a race against time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe destroyer escort DE-280\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe massive bow of DE-280 cuts through a dark-blue sea as a white explosion rises to starboard and a convoy appears on the horizon. Built at the Boston Navy Yard in 1943, the vessel was transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Kingsmill (K 484).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA call to meet production deadlines\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe yellow panel reproduces a dispatch signed by Rear Admiral E. L. Cochrane, Chief of the Bureau of Ships. It urges workers not to keep the destroyer escorts, described as “wolfhounds”, waiting against the German U-boat wolf packs, and ends by asking them to make every part on time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Legrand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57108496482629,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0773\/1707\/9365\/files\/death-on-subs-u-s-navy-dispatch_9f2c338b-ce14-47c8-9550-652ebd19f18f.webp?v=1771052443","url":"https:\/\/www.artemlegrand.co.uk\/products\/vintage-poster-u-s-navy-submarine-detection-280","provider":"Artem Legrand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}