The Greatest Team in the World!
Army Air Forces recruiting poster: a gunner in a glass nose position fires on a burning airfield while bombers fly past, above the line 'The Greatest Team in the World!'. The superlative slogan and the heroic action scene carry the appeal; young men aged 17 and under 18 are told where to enquire.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Air Forces (artist Clayton Knight)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 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 Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Army Air Forces (artist Clayton Knight). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-12 (NAID 513508).
Text on the object
THE GREATEST TEAM IN THE WORLD! AAF ARMY AIR FORCES IF YOU ARE 17 AND LESS THAN 18 CALL FOR INFORMATION AT ANY AAF EXAMINING BOARD OR U.S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION [signature: Clayton Knight] [imprint: P-X-54 RPR 2-11-44 [illegible]]
