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title: Wherever They Land They Need Our Engines
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-wherever-they-land-they-need-our-engines-1939/
description: A photograph shows troops wading ashore from a landing craft marked T.L.C. 121 beside the slogan 'Wherever they land they need our engines'.
section: Collection
---

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# Wherever They Land They Need Our Engines

A photograph shows troops wading ashore from a landing craft marked T.L.C. 121 beside the slogan 'Wherever they land they need our engines'. The tell for transfer is the borrowed photograph of an amphibious landing, which ties the home-front worker's engine output to the soldiers' risk and the pronoun 'our' joins factory and front.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
WHEREVER
THEY
LAND
THEY
NEED
OUR
ENGINES
MINISTRY OF SUPPLY No 90
```

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