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title: Give us more B-24's
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/give-us-more-b-24s-1944/
description: Drawing of a B-24 Liberator firing its waist guns at Japanese fighters in cloud, a burning ship on the sea below.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime wording: the quoted report calls Japanese pilots 'Jap pilots'. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Give us more B-24's, 1944 US poster: Drawing of a B-24 Liberator firing its waist guns at Japanese fighters in cloud](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/give-us-more-b-24s-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/give-us-more-b-24s-1944.jpg)

# Give us more B-24's

Drawing of a B-24 Liberator firing its waist guns at Japanese fighters in cloud, a burning ship on the sea below, with a boxed account of an engagement near Wewak credited to an Army Air Forces report. The report is offered as testimony and gives only the favourable outcome (testimonial, card-stacking).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"Twelve Zeros jumped the B-24 over Wewak, attacking from all sides. The Jap pilots took advantage of cloud cover... closed in...suddenly attacked through open spots, but could not escape the waist gunners. The Liberator destroyed six of the enemy, returning safely with one engine out and 64 bullet holes."
Army Air Forces report
Give us
MORE B-24's
U. S. ARMY
OFFICIAL POSTER
[signature: HEASLIP]
ISD No. 155
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—[illegible]]
```

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