"For God's sake send planes!" Planes mean guns, our guns
Industry poster: a wide-eyed soldier in a helmet crouches among leaves, shouting into a field telephone, under the quoted plea 'For God's sake send planes!' attributed to an 'actual message from the Far East'. Two U.S. fighters fly along the foot beside 'Planes mean guns - our guns'. The tell is a quoted plea from the front combined with an urgent image, a testimonial and fear-appeal aimed at war workers.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corporation
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corporation. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-796 (NAID 514285).
Text on the object
"FOR GOD'S SAKE SEND PLANES!" -ACTUAL MESSAGE FROM THE FAR EAST PLANES mean GUNS- OUR GUNS LET'S GO, EVERYBODY ... KEEP 'EM FIRING! [imprint:] COPYRIGHT, 1942 - OLDSMOBILE DIVISION, GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, LANSING, MICHIGAN
