--- title: Britain... Base for Round-the-Clock Bombing url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-britain-base-for-round-the-clock-bombing-1943/ description: A map of Britain sends arrows to six panels, one for each part of the day, showing Typhoon, Mosquito, Spitfire, Flying Fortress. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Britain... Base for Round-the-Clock Bombing [![Britain... Base for Round-the-Clock Bombing, 1943 UK poster: A map of Britain sends arrows to six panels, one for each part](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-britain-base-for-round-the-clock-bombing-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-britain-base-for-round-the-clock-bombing-1943.jpg) # Britain... Base for Round-the-Clock Bombing A map of Britain sends arrows to six panels, one for each part of the day, showing Typhoon, Mosquito, Spitfire, Flying Fortress, Beaufighter and heavy-bomber attacks on airfields, factories, trains, shipping and 'war production areas'. Only successful strikes are shown, with no losses or civilian effects, so the sequence can be read only as unbroken strength (card-stacking). ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` BRITAIN... Base for Round- the-Clock Bombing EARLY MORNING... SUNRISE TO NOON... ALL DAY... AFTERNOON... EVENING... NIGHT... Typhoon fighter-bombers "sweep" airfields Mosquito medium bombers attack shipyards, power stations, factories, etc., from low level. Spitfires shoot up locomotives with cannon fire Flying Fortress high-level bomb raids destroy vital industrial & military targets Beaufighters torpedo Axis coastwise shipping Lancaster, Stirling & Halifax heavy bombers in mass raids blot out war production areas Three years ago... on September 15, 1940... "the few" British pilots to whom "so much is owed by so many" won the aerial Battle of Britain which preserved the island as "the stationary aircraft carrier" used by British & American bombers today. Pictograph Corporation for British Information Services ``` [← Asking For It](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-asking-for-it-air-diagram-1943/) [Eisenhower Thanks Us (Ministry of Supply No. 103) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-eisenhower-thanks-us-royal-ordnance-factories-1943/) ## 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.