Description: RICHARD FAYERWEATHER BABCOCK (1887-1954) JOIN THE NAVY - THE SERVICE FOR FIGHTING MEN. 1917. 39x26¼ inches, 99x66½ cm. Condition B: water stain in lower left corner, into text; creases in margins, text and image. Paper. Framed. Replete with masculinity and adventure, a sailor is riding bareback on a torpedo. This is an image that may have inspired the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Rawls 72, Theofiles 32, Rickards 161, Borkan p. 23, War Posters 100.