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title: Sewing electrically heated flying suits with a smile, so that our boys can make it hot for the Axis. This is our war!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sewing-electrically-heated-flying-suits-this-is-our-war-1942/
description: Colour photograph of three women at industrial sewing machines stitching blue-grey cloth, the nearest smiling down at her work.
section: Collection
---

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# Sewing electrically heated flying suits with a smile, so that our boys can make it hot for the Axis. This is our war!

Colour photograph of three women at industrial sewing machines stitching blue-grey cloth, the nearest smiling down at her work, above the line 'This is our war!'. The tells are the smiling ordinary worker (plain-folks) and the answer to 'Who said this is a man's war?', which places women inside the war effort as shared owners of it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Sewing electrically heated flying suits with a smile—so that our boys can make it HOT for the AXIS. Who said "This is a man's war?"—
This is OUR war!
[credit: WESLEY BAL (cut off)]
[imprint: Copyright 1942 Selwyn, Ltd. New York, N. Y.  No. 15]
```

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