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title: On to Berlin Across Our Baileys
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-on-to-berlin-across-our-baileys-ministry-of-supply-1944/
description: A torn Daily Sketch page, 'Bailey Bridges the Gap and Wins the Battle of Demolitions', shows Bailey bridges carrying tanks in Italy.
section: Collection
---

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[![On to Berlin Across Our Baileys, 1944 UK poster: A torn Daily Sketch page, 'Bailey Bridges the Gap and Wins the Battle](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-on-to-berlin-across-our-baileys-ministry-of-supply-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-on-to-berlin-across-our-baileys-ministry-of-supply-1944.jpg)

# On to Berlin Across Our Baileys

A torn Daily Sketch page, 'Bailey Bridges the Gap and Wins the Battle of Demolitions', shows Bailey bridges carrying tanks in Italy, over the slogan 'On to Berlin across our Baileys'. The poster borrows the authority of a press report and the front-line advance and attaches it to the home output of bridging equipment.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Page 4 THE DAILY SKETCH, MON
FIRST PICTURES TO SHOW HOW...
Bailey Bridges
The Gap
AND WINS THE BATTLE
OF DEMOLITIONS

on to BERLIN
across our
BAILEYS

MINISTRY OF SUPPLY No 133
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Hubners Ltd 51-707
```

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