"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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Unattributed: 'For Freedom' emblem with Union flag; no issuing body, printer or artist named on the sheet
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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; hosted by owner decision
Unattributed ('For Freedom' emblem, GPD/ED9/5). National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-337d.
Text on the object
"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
