--- title: 'British Weapons to Defeat Hitler: More and More Guns Come Daily from the British Factories' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-british-weapons-guns-daily-1939/ description: Three silhouetted weapons (an anti-aircraft gun, an 8-inch howitzer and naval guns) are captioned with range and weight figures above a Union flag section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. British Weapons to Defeat Hitler: More and More Guns Come Daily [![British Weapons to Defeat Hitler: More and More Guns Come Daily from the British Factories, 1939 UK poster: Three silhouetted](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-british-weapons-guns-daily-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-british-weapons-guns-daily-1939.jpg) # British Weapons to Defeat Hitler: More and More Guns Come Daily from the British Factories Three silhouetted weapons (an anti-aircraft gun, an 8-inch howitzer and naval guns) are captioned with range and weight figures above a Union flag and the line 'More and more guns come daily from the British factories'. The tell for card-stacking is that only the strengths of British guns are shown, and the claim of rising output carries no production figures. ## 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 ``` BRITISH WEAPONS TO DEFEAT HITLER THIS IS AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN It fires a high explosive shell, which can reach and destroy raiding aircraft nearly eight miles above the ground. THIS IS AN 8-INCH HOWITZER It has a crew of six men and its heavy shell travels eight miles. Howitzers are used chiefly for destroying strong fortifications. THESE ARE NAVAL GUNS Sixty feet long, each weighs over 100 tons and fires a 1 ton shell a distance of 20 miles. British Battleships carry many guns like this. MORE AND MORE GUNS COME DAILY FROM THE BRITISH FACTORIES PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY GREENSLADE & CO. (READING) LTD. FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE. GIFT OF CENTRAL OUTDOOR ADVERTISING CO. ``` [← British Weapons to Defeat Hitler - Britain's Air Force is Now Stronger than Hitler's](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-british-weapons-air-force-stronger-than-hitlers-1939/) [Camouflage Nets: Baffle the Hun →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-camouflage-nets-baffle-the-hun-1939/) ## 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.