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title: Britain's R.A.F. of the Future in Training Now
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/britains-raf-of-the-future-in-training-now-uk-1939/
description: Three photographs show Air Training Corps boys beside an aircraft, repairing a component and on parade, with a Union Jack badge reading 'For Freedom'.
section: Collection
---

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# Britain's R.A.F. of the Future in Training Now

Three photographs show Air Training Corps boys beside an aircraft, repairing a component and on parade, with a Union Jack badge reading 'For Freedom'. The tell for bandwagon is the claim that 'hundreds of thousands of British boys volunteer'; the tell for glittering generalities is the unspecified 'for freedom' and 'great part' wording.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BRITAIN'S R.A.F. OF THE FUTURE
IN TRAINING NOW

(Above) Preparing for a flight at an A.T.C. Training Camp.
(Below) Boys of the A.T.C. busy on full-scale reconstruction work.
(On right) An Air Training Corps unit on parade.

EVERY BRITISH SCHOOLBOY who joins the Air Training Corps dreams of becoming the pilot of a "Spitfire." But there are many other jobs to do in the R.A.F.—all of them as important in their way as being a fighter pilot. So hundreds of thousands of British boys volunteer, before they are 18, for technical training of all sorts. And a great day comes when, at the A.T.C. Training Camp, they actually fly! Britain's youth is playing a great part in the record mobilisation of Britain's manpower.

[badge:] FOR FREEDOM
[code:] F.D./F.5
```

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