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title: 'Alerte en Mer, La Nuit - à Bord d''un Navire de Guerre: un Canonnier Près de Ses Pom-Poms, Attend le Signal de Faire Feu'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-alerte-en-mer-la-nuit-gunner-pom-poms-1939/
description: A close photograph shows a helmeted gunner at night standing among the barrels of a multiple pom-pom anti-aircraft gun, looking up.
section: Collection
---

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[![Alerte en Mer, La Nuit - à Bord d'un Navire de Guerre: un Canonnier Près de Ses Pom-Poms, Attend le Signal de Faire Feu, 1939](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-alerte-en-mer-la-nuit-gunner-pom-poms-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-alerte-en-mer-la-nuit-gunner-pom-poms-1939.jpg)

# Alerte en Mer, La Nuit - à Bord d'un Navire de Guerre: un Canonnier Près de Ses Pom-Poms, Attend le Signal de Faire Feu

A close photograph shows a helmeted gunner at night standing among the barrels of a multiple pom-pom anti-aircraft gun, looking up, with a one-line French caption. The tell for plain-folks is a single named-by-role ordinary sailor standing in for the whole navy, with no unit, date or place given.

## Propaganda techniques used in this photograph

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

## Text on the object

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

```
ALERTE EN MER, LA NUIT—A BORD D'UN NAVIRE DE GUERRE: UN CANONNIER PRES DE SES POM-POMS, ATTEND LE SIGNAL DE FAIRE FEU.
9.5 F.

[Translation: Alert at sea, at night, aboard a warship: a gunner beside his pom-poms awaits the signal to open fire.]
```

[← Letters to the Forces and the Merchant Navy (Airgraphs get priority)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-airgraphs-letters-to-the-forces-gpo-1939/) [Allies in the Shipyards →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-allies-in-the-shipyards-1939/)

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