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title: '"Destination Berlin!!"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/owi-alston-destination-berlin-99th-pursuit-squadron-1943/
description: A pencil cartoon shows a fighter plane marked '99th Pursuit Squadron' climbing out of clouds with a second fighter behind it.
section: Collection
---

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[!["Destination Berlin!!", 1943 US cartoon: A pencil cartoon shows a fighter plane marked '99th Pursuit Squadron' climbing out](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/owi-alston-destination-berlin-99th-pursuit-squadron-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/owi-alston-destination-berlin-99th-pursuit-squadron-1943.jpg)

# "Destination Berlin!!"

A pencil cartoon shows a fighter plane marked '99th Pursuit Squadron' climbing out of clouds with a second fighter behind it, while a damaged aircraft falls trailing smoke and a ship burns on the sea below. The caption names Berlin as the squadron's goal. The technique is a weak fit for glittering-generalities: the caption is a single aspirational slogan of victory attached to a named Black fighter unit.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"DESTINATION BERLIN!!"

[on the aircraft] 99th PURSUIT SQUADRON
[signature] Alston OWI
```

[← "Democracy in Action" No. IV (Leonard Roy Harmon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/owi-alston-democracy-in-action-no-iv-harmon-1943/) [Do Your Canning Job - I'll Do Mine!! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/owi-alston-do-your-canning-job-1943/)

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