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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British Information Services (printed by Pictograph Corporation)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
British Information Services, c. 1943; printed by Pictograph Corporation. U.S. National Archives, NAID 44266308 (44-PF-112).
Text on the object
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
