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title: '"Let Us Go Forward Together" (Churchill photograph poster)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-let-us-go-forward-together-churchill-1940/
description: A cut-out photograph of Winston Churchill in a hat and tweed overcoat fills the poster, set against RAF fighters in formation and tanks firing.
section: Collection
---

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# "Let Us Go Forward Together" (Churchill photograph poster)

A cut-out photograph of Winston Churchill in a hat and tweed overcoat fills the poster, set against RAF fighters in formation and tanks firing. The slogan 'Let us go forward together' is a virtue-word appeal to unity (glittering generalities), and the aircraft and tanks behind the leader attach the armed forces' strength to his image (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
" LET US
GO FORWARD
TOGETHER"

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY J. WEINER LTD., LONDON, W.C.1.  51-163
```

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