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title: 'Air Fronts: Your Planes Carry the Fight to the Axis'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/air-fronts-your-planes-carry-the-fight-1944/
description: 'Air Fronts photo sheet: P-47 escorts, a C-53 over the Egyptian pyramids, a cannon-armed Mitchell, and strikes on shipping at Rabaul and a destroyer.'
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**Content note:** Captions use period terms for the enemy (Jap, Nip) as printed; photographs of ships bombed and a downed aircraft. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Air Fronts: Your Planes Carry the Fight to the Axis, 1944 US poster: Air Fronts photo sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/air-fronts-your-planes-carry-the-fight-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/air-fronts-your-planes-carry-the-fight-1944.jpg)

# Air Fronts: Your Planes Carry the Fight to the Axis

Air Fronts photo sheet: P-47 escorts, a C-53 over the Egyptian pyramids, a cannon-armed Mitchell, and strikes on shipping at Rabaul and a destroyer, ending with the banner 'Your planes carry the fight to the Axis'. Captions use 'Nip' and 'Jap' for the enemy (name-calling as printed) and show only successful strikes (card-stacking).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
BOMBERS' GUARDIANS. Escorts of Thunderbolt fighters are an effective answer to Nazi "rocket gun" planes which attack our bombers. Fast, powerful and rangey, the Thunderbolt provides protection far into enemy territory.
AIR FRONTS
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER
THE OLD AND NEW. An American C-53 transport plane flies over the pyramids of Egypt. Air transport is a vital means of getting men and supplies to critical points for the attack on Axis-held Europe.
"PISTOL PACKIN'." (Right) Nose of a Mitchell armed with a 75 mm. cannon. For results of this new development see below.
PASTING RABAUL. U.S. planes raid Jap advanced base, sinking 15 Nip vessels, damaging 11, blasting and burning shore installations. With increasing air strength hammering the Japs, Uncle Sam is going places in the Pacific.
AXIS FIGHTER'S END. A German pursuit ship has been caught over Italy, downed in flames on the beach. With growing air superiority our forces are threatening the enemy on every front.
PISTOL PACKER PLUGS NIP. Striking proof of the power of the new cannon armament. A Jap destroyer is mauled by a Mitchell's 75 mm. gun. Arrow points to damage done by one shell.
YOUR PLANES CARRY THE FIGHT TO THE AXIS
[imprint:] I. S. D. No. 133  U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1944 O - [illegible]
```

[← Air Fronts (Heinkel Blazes, Havoc Over Naziland, Mercy Plane, Black Widow, Troops From Your Planes)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/air-fronts-heinkel-blazes-mercy-plane-1944/) [All hands needed. Stay with your ship →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-hands-needed-stay-with-your-ship-1944/)

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