Battle! How WE are helping in the Battle: Hurricanes must have Zinc and Sulphuric Acid
A photograph of five RAF fighters above cloud carries the headline 'Battle!', beside a panel listing the zinc and sulphuric acid needed for aircraft, brass parts, radio and munitions. The transfer tell is the borrowing of the fighter formation's prestige for a materials appeal, and 'How WE are helping' places the reader in the effort.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Supply (imprint 'M. of S.'), printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Multi Machine Plates Ltd., London
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Ministry of Supply, printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Multi Machine Plates Ltd.; U.S. National Archives, WWII Foreign Posters, 44-PF-92b, NAID 44266268.
Text on the object
Battle! How WE are helping in the Battle Hurricanes must have ZINC and SULPHURIC ACID for Moulds for making metal pressings All brass parts and cartridge cases Radio parts Rust prevention Cordite for the guns H.E. for bombs and cannon shells PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON E.C.4. 51-2381 M. of S.
