"Crusader" Tanks are Being Turned Out by the Thousand in this British Factory
A photograph of workers on a tank assembly line fills the sheet, with a Union Jack roundel and 'For Freedom' at lower left and a caption giving the tanks' weight and saying 'thousands' are being produced. The tell for card-stacking is the unsourced round figure 'thousands' with no count, dates or losses; the 'For Freedom' tag is a virtue phrase attached to a production photograph.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British government wartime poster series 'For Freedom' (issuing department and printer not stated; series mark and sheet code 'E.A.2.' only)
- 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, Economy and finance
- 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
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; no rights statement on the sheet; hosted by owner decision
British wartime poster series 'For Freedom' (issuer not stated). National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-172d.
Text on the object
E.A.2. [logo: Union Jack] FOR FREEDOM "CRUSADER" TANKS ARE BEING TURNED OUT BY THE THOUSAND IN THIS BRITISH FACTORY THESE BRITISH "LAND CRUISERS" each weigh eighteen tons and are heavily armed. Those shown here on the assembly line are just some of the thousands that are being turned out by a big factory in a British industrial area. They will soon be in action with British troops in many parts of the world.
