Air Fronts: Axis Tastes American Accuracy
Air Fronts photo sheet: aircrews briefing over a map, a ground crew fuelling a bomber, bomb racks loaded, and a three-frame aerial strip of an Axis supply ship hit and sunk. The headline and captions present bombing as precise and decisive; only successful results are shown, which is card-stacking.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (Army Air Forces); printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-320 (NAID 513767).
Text on the object
AIR FRONTS AXIS TASTES AMERICAN ACCURACY FILL 'ER UP! Ground crew puts in the finishing touches, sending a perfect machine out on its deadly mission. "HERE'S OUR COURSE" (below) Every man thoroughly understands every move. Plans are complete. AXIS POISON Bomb racks get their load. U.S. ARMY GOING! Target for today: Two Axis supply ships steaming full speed ahead for Africa. Look out below! GOING! A bull's-eye if we ever saw one . . . smack in the middle of No. 1! She's carrying ammunition, too! GONE! No. 1 blows up-as direct hits pick off No. 2. That's precision bombing, and we don't mean maybe! [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943 - O - [illegible]
