Give us more C-54's
Drawing of wounded soldiers on stretchers being carried from a C-54 Skymaster by medical personnel and soldiers beside a jeep, with a boxed statement credited to an Army Air Forces report. The report is testimony, and the care of the wounded is attached to the request for more aircraft (testimonial, transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (Army Air Forces), Edw. A. Wilson
- 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-891 (NAID 514396).
Text on the object
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER "Many a gravely wounded soldier owes his life to speedy air evacuation by the same giant C-54 Skymasters which flew in the men and materiel that so often have turned the tide of battle." Army Air Forces report Give us MORE C-54's [signature: EDW. A. WILSON] ISD No. 162 [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—[illegible]]
