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title: 'Tank landing craft lead our attack: our engines power the offensive'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-tank-landing-craft-lead-our-attack-1939/
description: A drawing of a tank driving off the ramp of a landing craft, infantry behind it and aircraft and shell-bursts beyond.
section: Collection
---

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[![Tank landing craft lead our attack: our engines power the offensive, 1939 UK poster: A drawing of a tank driving off the ramp](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-tank-landing-craft-lead-our-attack-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-tank-landing-craft-lead-our-attack-1939.jpg)

# Tank landing craft lead our attack: our engines power the offensive

A drawing of a tank driving off the ramp of a landing craft, infantry behind it and aircraft and shell-bursts beyond, is paired with a roundel photograph of a naval engineman at an engine. The slogan 'our engines power the offensive' links the factory worker's product to the attack shown; the combat scene lends its glamour to the production appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
tank
landing
craft
lead
our
attack

OUR ENGINES
POWER THE
OFFENSIVE

CLIVE UPTTON
MINISTRY OF SUPPLY No 60
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON E.C.4. 51-3206
```

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