WW I poster USA World War I, American recruitment poster showing a sailor taking a man in a suit by the shoulder, and gesturing toward battle ships at sea and a figure of Liberty waving the American flag. Original title: The Navy needs you! Don't read American history - make it! U.S. Navy Recruiting Station, 34 East 23rd St., New York. The Mayor's Committee on National Defense, Recruiting Committee. Artist: James Montgomery Flagg (1877 - 1960) Lithograph poster, color ; 102 x 70 cm. The H.C. Miner Lithograph Company. New York 1917.