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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British government (issuer not printed; marked 'F.D./F.5' and 'For Freedom')
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Issuer not printed (British government, by content). National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-561f.
Text on the object
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
