It's fortunate for the United Nations the Liberator is on our side
Army Air Forces poster: a B-24 Liberator bomber flies over a small island where bombs burst and black smoke rises from burning targets, under a quoted line calling the aircraft fortunate for the United Nations. It shows only the bomber's success and none of its losses, a one-sided selection of evidence (card-stacking), though the technique is mild.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Air Forces (artist Jo Kotula)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- 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 Air Forces. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1124 (NAID 514651).
Text on the object
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER "It's fortunate for the United Nations the LIBERATOR is on our side!" —ARMY AIR FORCES [signature:] Jo Kotula [imprint:] P-X-35-RPB-11-13-43-3M (partly legible)
