Pilotes Alliés d'une Escadrille de "Hurricanes"
Eight flyers in helmets and life jackets stand in a row beside an aircraft, captioned as Allied pilots of a Hurricane squadron and listed left to right by nationality: American, Australian, Canadian, Indian, Belgian, Scottish, English and Czechoslovak. The tell is the roster-by-nationality caption, which presents many peoples joining one side as evidence for it.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- No imprint printed; British wartime photographic information sheet in French (British origin inferred from the subject and RAF markings)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- 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; likely UK Crown copyright from 1939-1945 (50 years expired); hosted by owner decision
Issuer not printed (British wartime information sheet in French). National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-795g.
Text on the object
PILOTES ALLIES D'UNE ESCADRILLE DE "HURRICANES." DE GAUCHE A DROITE: AMERICAIN, AUSTRALIEN CANADIEN, INDIEN, BELGE, ECOSSAIS, ANGLAIS ET TCHECOSLOVAQUE. [Translation: Allied pilots of a squadron of Hurricanes. From left to right: American, Australian, Canadian, Indian, Belgian, Scottish, English and Czechoslovak.]
