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Munition Workers of Allied Countries Are Hitting Back at Hitler Through British Factories, 1939 UK poster: Four panels show

Munition Workers of Allied Countries Are Hitting Back at Hitler Through British Factories

Four panels show an RAF fighter strafing a convoy, tanks in action, and aircraft and tank assembly lines, framed by a ribbon of nine Allied flags and the words 'Are hitting back at Hitler'. The transfer tell is the borrowing of battlefield imagery and the Allied flags for the output of British factories, with no figures given.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Transfer
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Issuer not stated; imprint 'Printed in England'
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
United Kingdom
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Churchill Government
Leader
Winston Churchill
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes
War and the military, Labor
Event
World War II
Regime
Churchill wartime government
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
Issuer not stated, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-290a.

Text on the object

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

MUNITION WORKERS OF ALLIED COUNTRIES ...
ARE HITTING BACK AT HITLER ...
THROUGH BRITISH FACTORIES !
PRINTED IN ENGLAND

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