Nightshift Accuracy helps the Night Ack Ack
A smiling woman operates a drilling machine above a night photograph of anti-aircraft guns firing. The tell for plain-folks is the cheerful ordinary factory worker, linked by the word 'helps' to the gunfire her work is said to support.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Supply (Poster No. 62; printed for HMSO by Hubners Ltd)
- 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
- Home front, Labor, 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
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
UK Ministry of Supply / HMSO, printed by Hubners Ltd. National Archives (NARA), 44-PF-297.
Text on the object
NIGHTSHIFT ACCURACY helps THE NIGHT ACK ACK MINISTRY OF SUPPLY No 62 Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Hubners Ltd. 51-3149
