Give us more B-17's
Drawing of a damaged B-17 Flying Fortress diving through cloud with German fighters around it, beside a boxed account of one mission credited to an Army Air Forces report. The quoted report stands as testimony and tells only the success side of the mission (testimonial, card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (Army Air Forces), Heaslip
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-886 (NAID 514391).
Text on the object
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER "The B-17 was homeward bound when 6 Focke-Wulfs queued in for an assault. 20 mm. shells tore through tail compartment and top turret..set oxygen and flares afire..the plane hurtled down 10,000 feet before it could be brought under control. Yet with hydraulic system out, brakes gone, riddled with shells, the Fortress came back for a good landing —with 4 enemy fighters to its credit." Army Air Forces report Give us MORE B-17's [signature: HEASLIP] ISD No. 154 [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—[illegible]]
