A Daylight Raid on the Enemy Coast (For Freedom series, E.E.3)
A photograph shows motor launches and landing craft of the Royal Navy at sea, with a caption on Commando raids. The tell for fear-appeal is the claim that 'Hitler has learned to fear these Commando raids and he will fear them more', which frames British action as a threat to the enemy, and for transfer the Union Jack device and 'For Freedom' label.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- 'For Freedom' series poster (Union Jack device); issuing body not named on the poster
- 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
- Home front, War and the military
- 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; wartime British government-period print, hosted by owner decision
Issuer not named on the poster; British wartime poster. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-172b.
Text on the object
E.E.3. A DAYLIGHT RAID ON THE ENEMY COAST FOR FREEDOM THE ROYAL NAVY has many small ships which are used to land Commando troops on enemy shores. Hitler has learned to fear these Commando raids and he will fear them more as the months go by and they happen again and again. Much valuable information is always brought back together with German prisoners.
