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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Aircraft Production, printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Fosh & Cross Ltd.; artist Owen Miller
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Ministry of Aircraft Production; artist Owen Miller; printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Fosh & Cross Ltd., 1939-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, WWII Foreign Posters (44-PF-289).
Text on the object
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
