He111 - Tactical Poster 107
A cutaway drawing of the Heinkel He 111 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 1349 (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 1349; Tactical Poster copy, O.C.A.C.. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-65s.
Text on the object
He111 SIDE ELEVATION TOP VIEW FRONT ELEVATION A FIXED GUN MAY SOMETIMES BE FITTED IN THE EXTREME REAR END OF THE FUSELAGE AND OPERATED BY REMOTE CONTROL. SELF-SEALING FUEL TANK HOLDING 225 GALLONS (.303" AMMUNITION IS NOT GENERALLY EFFECTIVE AGAINST THESE TANKS.) 1,200 H.P. (D.B.601) MERCEDES-BENZ INVERTED "V" ENGINE. [further callouts: bomb chamber, oxygen bottles, armour plate, top rear gunner, lower rear gunner, oil cooler, radiator, master compass] OFFICIAL USE ONLY Air Diagram 1349 1/41 TACTICAL POSTER #107 O. C. A. C.
