Our Nightshift Output helps Their Night Offensive
A factory worker at a lathe is set above the silhouette of a fighter aircraft on a night airfield. The tell for plain-folks is the ordinary machinist presented as a direct contributor to the air offensive named in the headline.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Supply (Poster No. 56; 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-325.
Text on the object
OUR NIGHTSHIFT OUTPUT helps THEIR NIGHT OFFENSIVE MINISTRY OF SUPPLY No 56 Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Hubners Ltd. 51-31[illegible]
