AAF Report: An Exclusive Film for War Workers
Poster advertising a film for war-plant workers: B-17 bombers in a steep diagonal against a stormy sky under the title 'AAF Report', with 'the official Film Story of the Army Air Forces packed with actual combat scenes'. The tell is the appeal to the Army's own authority ('official', 'actual combat') to draw factory workers to a screening.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (Army Air Forces)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor, Media and information
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Army (Army Air Forces). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-264 (NAID 513713).
Text on the object
An Exclusive FILM for War Workers! AAF REPORT The official Film Story of the Army Air Forces packed with actual combat scenes [imprint:] U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER [imprint:] [illegible] GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]
