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Women are Winning the War of Production, 1939 UK poster: A colour photograph shows a woman in a headscarf tending a furnace

Women are Winning the War of Production

A colour photograph shows a woman in a headscarf tending a furnace at a press stamped 'Lucas Patents', with a Union Jack 'For Freedom' emblem. The tell is the selected figures, 'over one-third' of women in industry and tolerance of 'one two-thousandth of an inch', with no baseline, date or source, and 'munitions production goes steadily up' with no totals.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Card stacking
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Not named on the sheet (series code and 'For Freedom' emblem only) (code GPD/ED7/5)
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
United Kingdom
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Churchill Government
Leader
Winston Churchill
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
Labor, Home front
Event
World War II
Regime
Churchill wartime government
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; British wartime government-series sheet (no named issuer), hosted by owner decision
Not named on the sheet. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-536d.

Text on the object

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

WOMEN ARE WINNING
THE WAR OF PRODUCTION

OVER ONE-THIRD of the women of Britain are now employed as full-time workers in industry. To-day they are vital to Britain's vast war weapons output. Women are turning steel parts of aircraft engines to an accuracy of one two-thousandth of an inch. Like lightning their deft fingers machine precision instruments, fill bombs, operate fast-turning lathes. With more skilled women working every month Britain's munitions production goes steadily up.

FOR FREEDOM
GPD/ED7/5

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