r/PropagandaPosters • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 7h ago
Netherlands "Make sure you're part of it!", recruitment poster of the Royal Netherlands Navy, made by Frans Mettes (1909-1984), 1949
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u/Brabant-ball 6h ago
Surprised to learn from a recruitment poster that we used to operate aircraft carriers, proper big boy fleet apparently
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u/Bommelding 4h ago edited 4h ago
It's the Karel Doorman), an intermediate carrier. Bought from the British, sold to Argentina. I had never heard of it either. I suspect it's not talked about much because it's related to the West Guinea dispute and the unsavoury dutch attempts to cling to their colonies (I mean, that conflict doesn't even have a dutch wikipedia entry, which I find quite telling).
Andere Tijden has an episode about the carrier.
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u/CantInventAUsername 3h ago
The dispute is quite extensively described in the Dutch Wikipedia page for West Guinea to be fair, though it should have its own page.
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