Do17z - Tactical Poster 111
A cutaway drawing of the Dornier Do 17z shows crew positions, guns, armour, fuel tanks and bomb load with white callouts, plus side, front and top views. It is an aircraft-recognition and vulnerability diagram marked 'Official use only', not an appeal; the closest fit is card stacking, because the callouts pick out weak points and armament for the attacker and leave out anything else about the aircraft.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Air Ministry Air Diagram 1353 (copy circulated as Tactical Poster, O.C.A.C.); drawing signed G. H. Davis
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- 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
- UK Crown copyright, 1939-1945, expired; hosted by owner decision
Air Ministry Air Diagram 1353; Tactical Poster copy, O.C.A.C.. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-65r.
Text on the object
Do17z TINS OF EXPLOSIVE FOR DESTROYING AIRCRAFT IN EVENT OF FORCED LANDING IN ENEMY TERRITORY. BRAMO-FAFNIR RADIAL MOTOR (LIQUID COOLED MOTORS ARE ALSO FITTED). BULLET PROOF GLASS. TOP AND SIDE ARMOUR. REAR BOMB MAGAZINE WITH TEN 50K/G BOMBS. FORWARD BOMB MAGAZINE WITH TWO BOMB RACKS TO PORT AND STARBOARD FIVE (50K/G) BOMBS IN EACH. [further callouts: master compass, oxygen bottles, armour plate bulkhead, wireless installation, observer bomb-aimer, top and lower rear guns, lower front gun, armoured cradle, fuel tanks] OFFICIAL USE ONLY Air Diagram 1353 1/41 TACTICAL POSTER #111 O. C. A. C.
