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title: '"Hurricane" Fighters Rule the Skies'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-hurricane-fighters-rule-the-skies-1939/
description: A colour picture of a Hawker Hurricane fighter seen from below against clouds, with a Union flag emblem marked 'For Freedom'.
section: Collection
---

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# "Hurricane" Fighters Rule the Skies

A colour picture of a Hawker Hurricane fighter seen from below against clouds, with a Union flag emblem marked 'For Freedom'. The tell for transfer is the flag and roundels carrying the message; the tell for card-stacking is the headline claim that the fighters 'rule the skies' and the report of 'many Axis aircraft' destroyed, with no counts or losses.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"HURRICANE" FIGHTERS
RULE THE SKIES

THE POWERFUL, fast "Hurricane" fighter is one of the Royal Air Force's answers to German claims of air superiority. Patrolling the skies by day and by night the "Hurricane" fighter pilots are relentless in their pursuit of the enemy and have been responsible for the destruction of many Axis aircraft.

[imprint:] FOR FREEDOM  GPD/ED9/5
```

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