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title: Air Fronts (U.S. Army Official Poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/air-fronts-army-official-poster-1944/
description: 'Photo-montage sheet headed Air Fronts: aerial views of bombs falling on a New Guinea airfield, smoke over Ploesti, a P-47 strafing a flak tower.'
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Captions use period terms for the enemy (Jap, Nazi) as printed; photographs of aircraft destroyed in combat. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Air Fronts (U.S. Army Official Poster)

Photo-montage sheet headed Air Fronts: aerial views of bombs falling on a New Guinea airfield, smoke over Ploesti, a P-47 strafing a flak tower, a B-29 tail and gun-camera frames of a German fighter hit. Captions describe only successful strikes and the one lost B-17 is a small insert; the technique is card-stacking by selection of images.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AIR FRONTS
PARAFRAG BOMBS (Left) settling among Jap planes (numbers indicate four different types) on Dagua Airdrome, Wewak, New Guinea. Bombs fall slowly, permitting our low-level bombers to get clear.
SMOKE ROSE 20,000 FEET (Below) when Liberators and Fortresses recently bombed heavily defended Ploesti, Romania, oil fields. See the dark tip of that almost-four-mile smoke column among the clouds. Insert - a B-17 that didn't come back.
FLAK TOWER IN FRANCE. The strafing P-47 Thunderbolt swoops dangerously close to hit its mark. Bursts can be seen striking the tower, which protects a German airdrome.
EAGLE AND SPARROW of the Army Air Forces. The tail of that king of American eagles, the majestic new B-29 Superfortress, is as long as the entire Culver Kaydet plane parked cozily beneath it.
NAZI TORCH SONG. You're looking through the eyes of a U. S. fighter as he sends a Messerschmitt 109 blazing to earth. Many of our pursuit planes now slashing from England at Hitler's heartland carry cameras that bring back evidence of their kills-like the P-38 Lightning shown here.
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER
[imprint:] I. S. D. NO. 181  U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944 O - [illegible]
```

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