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title: Give us more C-46's
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/give-us-more-c-46s-1944/
description: Drawing of C-46 Commando transports flying over snow-capped mountains, with a boxed statement credited to an Army Air Forces report about
section: Collection
---

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

[![Give us more C-46's, 1944 US poster: Drawing of C-46 Commando transports flying over snow-capped mountains, with a boxed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/give-us-more-c-46s-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/give-us-more-c-46s-1944.jpg)

# Give us more C-46's

Drawing of C-46 Commando transports flying over snow-capped mountains, with a boxed statement credited to an Army Air Forces report about the India-to-China air route. The report serves as testimony, and words such as 'gallant' and 'precious' carry the approval (testimonial, glittering-generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER
"Fair weather or foul, C-46 Commandos fly 'Over the hump' from India to China— carrying the precious fuel and materiel that keep General Chennault's gallant air force striking increasingly heavy blows at the Japs."
Army Air Forces report
Give us
MORE C-46's
[signature: EDW. A. WILSON]
ISD No. 161
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—[illegible]]
```

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