"Lancaster" Bombers are Smashing German Industries
A colour photograph of an Avro Lancaster bomber among 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 industries are 'smashed' and factories 'useless', with no damage figures, losses or civilian effects given.
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/ED9/1). National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-337f.
Text on the object
"LANCASTER" BOMBERS ARE SMASHING GERMAN INDUSTRIES BRITAIN'S "LANCASTER" BOMBERS have made many flights over Germany, Italy and Occupied France. Bombing raids from British airfields are becoming heavier and heavier, not only by night but by day as well. By rendering many German-controlled war factories useless for production the war is being shortened. The "Lancaster" often carries Britain's giant 8,000 lb. bombs. [imprint:] FOR FREEDOM GPD/ED9/1
