Air Fronts (Zero Hour, You Can't Keep a Good Plane Down, End of Nazi, Brand New Scrap, Parachute Bombs)
Photo-sheet headed AIR FRONTS with five captioned Army photographs: paratroopers boarding for Sicily, a repaired P-38, a shot-down ME 323, wrecked German planes on flatcars and parachute bombs at Wewak. Only successes are shown, with captions praising American air power (card-stacking), under the Army's eagle seal and 'Official Poster' tag (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- 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-315 (NAID 513762).
Text on the object
AIR FRONTS ZERO HOUR! U. S. paratroopers adjust packs and 'chutes just before boarding transport planes for the invasion of Sicily. Note American flags on armbands. (Inset) C-47 loaded with paratroopers takes off from North Africa for Sicily. These transports did yeoman service throughout the campaign. YOU CAN'T KEEP a good plane down! Mechanics at a North African base are shown repairing the battle-damaged P-38 Lightning in the foreground with parts salvaged from planes in the background. END OF NAZI. This dramatic photo shows a huge, 6-engined ME 323 being shot down into the sea off Corsica by a B-26 Marauder. These unconventional giants, although heavily armed, were no match for American firepower. Their landing wheel arrangement is interesting. BRAND NEW SCRAP. These unassembled German planes fell victim to American air-power in Sicily as they arrived on railway flatcars. Accurate bombing and strafing reduced them to scrap before they could get into combat! Result: Air superiority for our side! PARACHUTE BOMBS sail down from tree-skimming U. S. planes among Japanese twin-engined ships at the air base at Wewak, New Guinea. In one attack like this 120 Jap planes were blasted to bits. The tail gunner of the last AAF plane racing over the target made the photo. U.S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943--O-552838]
