Air Fronts (Heinkel Blazes, Havoc Over Naziland, Mercy Plane, Black Widow, Troops From Your Planes)
Photo-sheet headed AIR FRONTS: a strafed Heinkel burning on an airfield, an A-20 over farmland, a C-54 loading wounded at Makin, the Black Widow night fighter and C-47s and gliders over France. Captions praise the aircraft and address the reader as supplier ('your planes'), showing successes only (card-stacking) under the Army seal (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army
- 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, 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-317 (NAID 513764).
Text on the object
AIR FRONTS HEINKEL BLAZES at a German airdrome after being raked by a strafing P-51 (like the one, shown inset, at its base in England). "Mustang" low-level attacks, though hazardous, cut deeply into what remains of the Luftwaffe. HAVOC OVER NAZILAND. The trim, speedy A-20 light attack bomber strikes fast and hard, leaves one of Hitler's defenses billowing smoke, and gets out of there pronto, TROOPS FROM YOUR PLANES cracked Nazi Europe first. Above, a C-47 and glider leave England. Below, the great transports circle over France. Although some gliders crashed in the tiny, difficult fields, C-47's did an expert hauling job. MERCY PLANE. Giant C-54 hospital transport takes aboard her load of wounded among the palms of Makin Island. To men who went down fighting Japs the C-54 gives a big lift on the road back to life. "BLACK WIDOW," the Army's deadly new night fighter. The "Widow" hunts down the enemy through the dark of night and blasts him with 20mm cannon and 50-caliber machine guns. U.S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER ISD No. 194 [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944--O-60[illegible]]
