Give us more P-51's
Army Air Forces production-appeal poster: a P-51 Mustang firing as it dives low over a harbour and rail yards, with a boxed quotation from an 'Army Air Forces report' on a strafing mission. The tell is one favourable episode, reported by an official source, offered as the case for more aircraft.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Army Air Forces; artist 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-894 (NAID 514399).
Text on the object
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER "Following the Elm Canal on strafing mission, the P-51 streaked low over Holland, Germany, France, and back to England. Speed took it past flak batteries before they could go into action...evaded enemy pursuits...the Mustang's heavy firepower blasted 3 sea-planes, 4 barges, 2 trains. The only thing that hit it was a Channel seagull, into which it ran!" Army Air Forces report Give us MORE P-51's [signature: HEASLIP '44] ISD No. 160 [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office : 1944-O-[illegible]]
