150 Two-Ton Bombs Fall on the German City of Düsseldorf in 50 Minutes
A painted scene shows many large bombs falling on a town with explosions and fires, above a photograph of a bomber loading a large bomb and text that one explosion 'spreads devastation over a whole district'. The tell is card-stacking: figures and imagery stress the weight of the attack and the damage, with no mention of cost or of those below.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not named ('B.O.S. 42'; printed in England); British wartime poster
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (British wartime poster, no rights statement)
Issuer not named ('B.O.S. 42'; printed in England); British wartime poster, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-317.
Text on the object
150 two-ton bombs fall on the German city of DÜSSELDORF in 50 minutes On the left is an actual photograph showing the immense size of the British bombs. The explosion of one of them spreads devastation over a whole district B.O.S. 42 Printed in England
