Me109 - Tactical Poster 109
A cutaway drawing of the Messerschmitt Me 109 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 1351 (copy circulated as Tactical Poster, O.C.A.C.)
- 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 1351; Tactical Poster copy, O.C.A.C.. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-65u.
Text on the object
Me109 NOTE: WING TIPS ARE CUT VERY SQUARE. THERE IS A VULNERABLE INJECTION PUMP BETWEEN CYLINDER BLOCKS BELOW ENGINE 20M/M OERLIKON CANNON. TWO SYNCHRONISED MACHINE-GUNS FIRING THROUGH AIRSCREW DISC. ARMOUR PLATE BEHIND AND OVER PILOT'S HEAD. [further callouts: radio equipment, armoured bulkhead, fuel tank (88 gals), oil tank, coolant tank, radiator, retracted under-carriage; views: side elevation, front view, overhead view] OFFICIAL USE ONLY Air Diagram 1351 1/41 TACTICAL POSTER #109 O. C. A. C.
