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title: We're in it together
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-were-in-it-together-henrion-gpo-1939/
description: A large photomontage of a woman telephonist with headset and handset sits beside four smaller portraits of a pilot, a naval officer.
section: Collection
---

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[![We're in it together, 1939 UK poster: A large photomontage of a woman telephonist with headset and handset sits beside four](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-were-in-it-together-henrion-gpo-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-were-in-it-together-henrion-gpo-1939.jpg)

# We're in it together

A large photomontage of a woman telephonist with headset and handset sits beside four smaller portraits of a pilot, a naval officer, a civilian on the telephone and a soldier, divided by a red cross, under the slogan 'we're in it together'. The slogan is a virtue phrase with no stated task (glittering generalities), and the ordinary people in uniform and at the switchboard stand for the whole nation (plain folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
we're in it together

GPO

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY HENRY HILDESLEY LTD., LONDON. 51-38[illegible]9
P.R.D. 309

[signature in the artwork:] HENRION
```

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