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title: Biggest, Fastest, Deadliest... Superfortress
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/biggest-fastest-deadliest-superfortress-1944/
description: 'Landscape U.S. Army poster: a B-29 drops a string of bombs over a burning industrial coast while a Japanese fighter falls in flames.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Shows a bombing run on a burning industrial city and a downed Japanese fighter. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Biggest, Fastest, Deadliest... Superfortress, 1944 US poster: Landscape U.S. Army poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/biggest-fastest-deadliest-superfortress-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/biggest-fastest-deadliest-superfortress-1944.jpg)

# Biggest, Fastest, Deadliest... Superfortress

Landscape U.S. Army poster: a B-29 drops a string of bombs over a burning industrial coast while a Japanese fighter falls in flames; three inset photographs carry captions on speed, wing design and engine power. Glittering-generalities: superlatives ('Biggest Fastest Deadliest'). Card-stacking: only the aircraft's strengths and the enemy's losses are shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER
Biggest
Fastest
Deadliest...
SUPERFORTRESS
SILVER GNATS IN THE SKY. Soaring higher than any other bomber, majestic B-29's are the tiniest of targets, mere silver specks, to enemy gunners far below. Fast as fighter planes, they need no escort.
B-29 SUPER STREAMLINES show up vividly in comparison with the smaller B-17. Note the slender, 141-foot wings, brand-new in design. They lift a heavier weight than any other plane's wing.
8800 POUNDING HORSES--nearly twice the B-17's horsepower--in the Superfort's four Wright Cyclone engines. Four-bladed, 16 1/2-foot Hamilton propellers dwarf those of every other plane.
[signature: Heaslip]
[imprint: ISD NO. 189]
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944, [illegible]]
```

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