--- title: 'Sept. 1939 - Sept. 1942: Facts Emphasize Britain''s Unflinching Purpose After 3 Hard Years of War' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sept-1939-sept-1942-britains-unflinching-purpose-uk-1942/ description: 'A tall pictogram sheet marks three years of war with four panels: two in three Britons mobilised, ammunition output rising from 5,000 to over 55,000 tons' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Sept. 1939 - Sept. 1942: Facts Emphasize Britain's Unflinching Purpose [![Sept. 1939 - Sept. 1942: Facts Emphasize Britain's Unflinching Purpose After 3 Hard Years of War, 1942 UK poster: A tall](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sept-1939-sept-1942-britains-unflinching-purpose-uk-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/sept-1939-sept-1942-britains-unflinching-purpose-uk-1942.jpg) # Sept. 1939 - Sept. 1942: Facts Emphasize Britain's Unflinching Purpose After 3 Hard Years of War A tall pictogram sheet marks three years of war with four panels: two in three Britons mobilised, ammunition output rising from 5,000 to over 55,000 tons a week, land under the plough, and RAF heavy bombers from 100 to 1,000. The tell is card-stacking, with only rising figures shown and no losses or shortfalls, and 'unflinching purpose' is a virtue phrase with no metric. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Sept. 1939-Sept. 1942 The following facts emphasize Britain's unflinching purpose after 3 hard years of war 2 OUT OF 3 BRITONS MOBILISED FOR WAR Of 33 millions in the United Kingdom aged between 14 and 65, 22 millions, two persons out of three, have been mobilised for armed service or for full-time work in connection with the war. This in addition to the millions who are doing part-time work or giving voluntary unpaid service. BRITISH MINISTER OF LABOUR. May 21, 1942. House of Commons. INCREASING VOLUME OF WAR PRODUCTION 1940 Five thousand tons of ammunition every week 1942 Over fifty five thousand tons of ammunition every week BRITAIN GOES ALL OUT ON THE LAND Land under the plough. 1939 . 12,000,000 ACRES 1942 . 18,000,000 ACRES INCREASING HITTING POWER OF THE R.A.F. 1940 1941 1942 Size of Heavy Bomber forces . EACH [bomber icon] equals 40 Bombers 100 300 1,000 G.P.G./AM./17 PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY CHROMOWORKS LTD., LONDON 51-2968. ``` [← Ayudad a la obra social de la Sección Femenina poniendo un sello de José Antonio en vuestras cartas (cinema slide)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seccion-femenina-sello-jose-antonio-slide-1942/) [Someone Talked! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/someone-talked-1942/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.