Wings for Victory: More Savings - More Wings
A painting looks past the engines of a four-engined RAF bomber to three more in formation over sunlit cloud, under the title 'Wings for Victory' and the line 'More Savings - More Wings'. The glow and the aircraft's prestige are attached to the act of buying savings certificates (transfer), and 'Victory' stands in for any stated sum or purchase (glittering generalities).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- National Savings Committees (London, Edinburgh, Belfast), printed for H.M. Stationery Office; artist Frank Wootton
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
National Savings Committee, London, with the Scottish and Ulster Savings Committees; printed for H.M. Stationery Office; artist Frank Wootton, c. 1943. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
WINGS FOR VICTORY MORE SAVINGS - MORE WINGS W.F.P. 265 Issued by the NATIONAL SAVINGS COMMITTEE LONDON, THE SCOTTISH SAVINGS COMMITTEE EDINBURGH, and the ULSTER SAVINGS COMMITTEE BELFAST. PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY JOHNSON, RIDDLE & CO. LTD. LONDON SE 20 51-3073 [signature in the painting:] W. [illegible] OTTON
