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title: 'Mosquito Bulletin No. 1: Our Target is their Success'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mosquito-bulletin-no-1-1939/
description: A painted de Havilland Mosquito in RAF markings skims a coast above a short text about a low-level attack on the Flensburg U-boat yards.
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---

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# Mosquito Bulletin No. 1: Our Target is their Success

A painted de Havilland Mosquito in RAF markings skims a coast above a short text about a low-level attack on the Flensburg U-boat yards. The text tells one episode, a damaged aircraft that 'made it without the slightest trouble', and nothing else about the raid, which is the card-stacking tell; it is addressed to the aircraft makers' workforce through the slogan 'Our Target is their Success'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
MOSQUITO BULLETIN

MOSQUITO BULLETIN No. 1.

IN A DARING ATTACK AT VERY LOW LEVEL ON THE U-BOAT YARDS
AT FLENSBURG, A MOSQUITO, SKIMMING THE ROOF-TOPS, STRUCK
A CHIMNEY-POT.
IT TORE A HUGE HOLE NEARLY THREE FEET WIDE IN THE
FUSELAGE NEAR THE WING ROOT.
THAT WAS RIGHT ON THE ROOF OF GERMANY, BY THE BALTIC
COAST, A VERY LONG JOURNEY HOME.
THE MOSQUITO MADE IT WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST TROUBLE,
EXCEPT THAT THE CREW FELT A DRAUGHT.
BUT IT WAS NOTHING LIKE THE DRAUGHT THE FLENSBURG
NAZIS FELT......

AIRFRAME D.K. 296.
PORT ENGINE 59761/A313086.
STAR ENGINE 59997/A313204.
MINISTRY OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION.

Our Target is their Success

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FOSH & CROSS, LTD. 51/3025

[signature in the painting:] Owen Miller
```

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