War Supplies for Russia
A painted column of covered lorries winds across a hilly desert plain toward a tented camp, with aircraft overhead, under the line 'A convoy of British and American lorries streams along the Persian route to Russia.' The poster shows only the flowing convoy and no losses or delays, which is the card-stacking tell, and its stated message is that Allied supplies are reaching the Soviet Union.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Not stated; imprint 'B.O.S. 40', 'Printed in England'; artist Blake
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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; hosted by owner decision (British wartime poster, imprint as stated in notes)
Not stated; imprint 'B.O.S. 40', 'Printed in England'; artist Blake. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-66.
Text on the object
WAR SUPPLIES FOR RUSSIA ... A convoy of British and American lorries streams along the Persian route to Russia. [signature:] BLAKE [imprint:] B.O.S. 40. Printed in England
