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title: Don't let him down!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dont-let-him-down-1942/
description: 'Red, white and blue poster: a low-angle photographic view of an aircraft gunner at a machine gun, printed in red.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Don't let him down!, 1942 US poster: Red, white and blue poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-let-him-down-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-let-him-down-1942.jpg)

# Don't let him down!

Red, white and blue poster: a low-angle photographic view of an aircraft gunner at a machine gun, printed in red, against a blue sky with a large pale arrow carrying the diagonal words 'Don't let him down!'. The poster does not say what the viewer should do; the technique is faint and is closest to transfer, military imagery attached to a general appeal to civilians.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Don't
Let Him
Down!
[signature: BEALL]
DIVISION OF INFORMATION
OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
WASHINGTON, D.C.
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942 [number illegible]]
```

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