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title: Fall in the fire-bomb fighters! (Herbert Morrison)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fall-in-the-fire-bomb-fighters-morrison-1940/
description: A hand holds a hose nozzle spraying over red flames, under the command 'Fall in the fire-bomb fighters!' signed with the minister's name, '-Herbert…
section: Collection
---

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# Fall in the fire-bomb fighters! (Herbert Morrison)

A hand holds a hose nozzle spraying over red flames, under the command 'Fall in the fire-bomb fighters!' signed with the minister's name, '-Herbert Morrison'. The signed personal call from a named office-holder is the tell: the appeal rests on his name and authority, with no further argument.

## Text on the object

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

```
FALL IN THE FIRE-BOMB FIGHTERS!
-HERBERT MORRISON
ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY
[imprint, lower right:] PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY J. WEINER LTD. LONDON. W.C.I. 51-8538
```

Read from the committed image.

[← 'Dig for Victory' banner across the Royal Exchange, London, used as a Ministry of Information poster site](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dig-for-victory-royal-exchange-banner-1940/) [Они так веселы потому что вырвались к счастливой жизни (They Are So Cheerful Because They Broke Free to a Happy Life): Finnish leaflet for Red Army soldiers →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finnish-leaflet-pows-content-1940/)

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