British Women Help to Destroy German Planes
A colour photograph shows women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service in steel helmets working a large anti-aircraft instrument, with a Union Jack 'For Freedom' emblem. The tell is the emblem and slogan 'For Freedom' standing in for any stated aim, and the unquantified claim of responsibility for 'many Axis aircraft'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Not named on the sheet (series code and 'For Freedom' emblem only) (code GPD/ED7/1)
- 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
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; British wartime government-series sheet (no named issuer), hosted by owner decision
Not named on the sheet. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-536b.
Text on the object
BRITISH WOMEN HELP TO DESTROY GERMAN PLANES THE WOMEN of Britain's Auxiliary Territorial Service have already been directly responsible for the destruction of many Axis aircraft. These women do everything except actually firing the guns; they find the range, judge the speed and give the order to fire! They release men for front line Army duties. FOR FREEDOM GPD/ED7/1
