Give us more B-25's
Drawing of a battered B-25 Mitchell, tail partly shot away and landing gear hanging, flying low over a palm-fringed shore, with a boxed account credited to an Army Air Forces report. The report works as testimony and tells only that the bomber survived (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-888 (NAID 514393).
Text on the object
"Cannon and machine gun fire virtually hacked the B-25 Mitchell to tatters. The hydraulic system was knocked out...bomb bay doors fell open ...landing wheels dangled out...incendiary bullets set fire to the right engine...right half of tail was shot off. But the bomber continued to fly to friendly territory, landing on a beach." Army Air Forces report Give us MORE B-25's U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER [signature: HEASLIP] ISD No. 156 [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—[illegible]]
