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title: New Zealand Fights
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-zealand-fights-peel-1942/
description: A New Zealand soldier with a netted helmet and a mounted machine gun looks out over a ridge under the words 'New Zealand Fights'.
section: Collection
---

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# New Zealand Fights

A New Zealand soldier with a netted helmet and a mounted machine gun looks out over a ridge under the words 'New Zealand Fights'; an attached slip explains that he stands for the whole army and likens the 1941 stand at Thermopylae Pass to Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. The tell is the comparison to Sparta, which borrows ancient prestige for the soldier.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NEW ZEALAND
FIGHTS
NEW ZEALAND [shoulder flash]
Peel 42

[attached slip, small print, partly legible:] This poster of a New Zealand soldier alert at his desert outpost was designed by Mr. A. T. Peel, noted New York artist. ... Here is the drama and the spirit of New Zealand at War!
[Additional copies may be obtained by sending twenty-five cents ... to the Director of Information, New Zealand Legation, 11 Observatory Circle, Washington, D.C.]
```

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