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Fight For Your Flag - You May Enlist Here Under These Colours, 1939 UK poster: Flags of Yugoslavia, Poland, Norway

Fight For Your Flag - You May Enlist Here Under These Colours

Flags of Yugoslavia, Poland, Norway, the Netherlands, Free France, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and the United Kingdom stream across a black field beneath the text 'Fight for your flag - you may enlist here under these colours'. The tell is the flag as a stand-in for the nation, which ties the viewer's national identity to enlisting in the British-based forces.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

TransferIdentity fusion
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Allied recruiting poster, issuer not printed (artist M. Walentynowicz); NARA country: UK
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
United Kingdom
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Churchill Government
Leader
Winston Churchill
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Recruit
Theme
War and the military
Event
World War II
Regime
Churchill wartime government
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; hosted by owner decision
Artist M. Walentynowicz; issuer not stated, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-20.

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

FIGHT
FOR YOUR
FLAG

YOU MAY ENLIST HERE
UNDER THESE COLOURS

[flag labels:] YUGOSLAVIA, POLAND, NORWAY, NETHERLANDS, FREE FRANCE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, BELGIUM
[signature:] M. WALENTYNOWICZ

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