Thousands of Tanks in the Middle East War Zone (For Freedom series, E.D.2)
A photograph shows a General Lee tank with its commander in the hatch in desert terrain, with a caption on reinforcements. The tell for card-stacking is the headline 'Thousands of tanks' against a single tank and a caption that reports enemy tanks disabled and prisoners taken but no British losses, 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-172c.
Text on the object
E.D.2 THOUSANDS OF TANKS IN THE MIDDLE EAST WAR ZONE FOR FREEDOM "GENERAL LEE" TANKS are part of the growing reinforcements which are arriving in Egypt to strengthen the British forces there. This tank is attached to a famous Hussar regiment. During the bitter fighting in this latest desert campaign, in which great numbers of German and British tanks have been engaged, many enemy tanks have been put out of action and thousands of prisoners taken.
