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title: Allied Leaders on D-Day ...
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-allied-leaders-on-d-day-1944/
description: A colour photograph of seven Allied commanders seated at a table before wall maps is accompanied by a printed list of each man's name, rank and post.
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# Allied Leaders on D-Day ...

A colour photograph of seven Allied commanders seated at a table before wall maps is accompanied by a printed list of each man's name, rank and post, among them Eisenhower, Montgomery, Bradley, Ramsay, Tedder, Leigh-Mallory and Bedell Smith. The tell is transfer: the rank and the 'Liberation of Europe' wording attach the prestige of named leaders to the invasion. This is a photograph sheet, not drawn poster art.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ALLIED LEADERS ON D-DAY ....
THIS PHOTOGRAPH shows the Chiefs of the Allied Expeditionary Forces based in Britain preparing their plans for the invasion of Europe which began on D-Day (June 6th, 1944).
The name of each man, reading from left to right, and the rank and position he held when this photograph was taken are given below.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL OMAR N. BRADLEY (Commander-in-Chief of United States Forces under the Supreme Command)
ADMIRAL SIR BERTRAM RAMSAY (Commanding the Allied Naval Forces co-operating in the invasion of Europe)
AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ARTHUR TEDDER (Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces)
GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces based in Britain for the Liberation of Europe)
GENERAL SIR BERNARD MONTGOMERY (Commander-in-Chief of British Forces under the Supreme Commander)
AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR TRAFFORD LEIGH-MALLORY (Commanding the Allied Air Forces under the Supreme Commander)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WALTER BEDELL SMITH (Chief of Staff to General Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander)
[imprint:] G.P.D. 365/21/10
```

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