Foreign Language Poster with Pilot in Foreground (Outstanding Youth, Go to the Air Force)
A yellow-suited pilot in goggles raises a fist toward three biplanes, with a bomber bearing the Chinese Nationalist sun emblem behind him; vertical characters call outstanding young people to the air force. The tell is the heroic pilot and national emblem standing in for any stated terms of service, with 'outstanding youth' as flattering praise attached to enlistment.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Political Department of the Military Commission (軍事委員會政治部), Chinese Nationalist government
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Nanjing Nationalist Government
- Leader
- Chiang Kai Shek
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Second Sino Japanese War
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (Chinese government poster, 1939-1945)
Political Department of the Military Commission, Chinese Nationalist government, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-2.
Text on the object
優秀的青年 到空軍中去 軍事委員會政治部印 [Translation: Outstanding young people, go into the air force. Printed by the Political Department of the Military Commission.]
