Die erste Million (The First Million), British balloon leaflet A.P. 74
An American soldier carries the Stars and Stripes at the head of a column that runs back through marching ranks and transports to the Statue of Liberty at New York, above the lettering 'FRANKREICH'. The unbroken column and the fixed bayonets in the foreground stage American manpower as arriving without limit, in a German-captioned sheet marked 'By balloon'.
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- British aeronautical-propaganda leaflet series (sheet numbered A.P. 74; issuing office not printed on the sheet, series attributed to the British Air Ministry)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Lloyd George Government
- Leader
- David Lloyd George
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- BandwagonFear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Europeana 1914-1918 (Hermann Otto Wolf collection, user contribution), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- 1918 leaflet (published before 1931); scan shared by its contributor under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Europeana
Hermann Otto Wolf collection (contributed 2011), Europeana 1914-1918, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Text on the object
A.P. 74. BY BALLOON. Durch Luftballon. NEW YORK FRANKREICH Die erste Million.
A.P. 74. BY BALLOON. [English] By balloon. [German] NEW YORK FRANCE The first million.
The header is bilingual (English and German); the caption and the word on the ground are German; 'NEW YORK' is lettered above the harbour. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
