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title: You and the R.A.F. can Smash Germany
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-you-and-the-raf-can-smash-germany-1942/
description: A reproduced typed letter on Bomber Command letterhead, signed by Air Marshal A. T. Harris, asks factory workers for more bombers.
section: Collection
---

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[![You and the R.A.F. can Smash Germany, 1942 UK poster: A reproduced typed letter on Bomber Command letterhead, signed by Air](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-you-and-the-raf-can-smash-germany-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-you-and-the-raf-can-smash-germany-1942.jpg)

# You and the R.A.F. can Smash Germany

A reproduced typed letter on Bomber Command letterhead, signed by Air Marshal A. T. Harris, asks factory workers for more bombers, over a pattern of bomber silhouettes. The signed letter is the testimonial; the headline 'YOU and the R.A.F.' joins the worker and the air force in one undertaking.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HEADQUARTERS,
BOMBER COMMAND,
c/o G.P.O.,
HIGH WYCOMBE,
BUCKS.

30th November, 1942.

I rely on you for more Bombers now, at once.
My crews are waiting for them; they are trained and ready
to take off for Germany or Italy the moment they get the
Bombers from the Factories. The magnificent Bombers you
have sent to us have already hit the enemy so hard that we
know we are on the road to victory.

You get cracking and we can get cracking; between
us we can get the Axis cracking - until we bust it wide open.

A. T. Harris
Air Marshal
R.A.F.

YOU and the R.A.F.
can smash Germany
```

[← The Worker Who Left the Lights On! Don't Be Fuel-ish](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-worker-who-left-lights-on-dont-be-fuel-ish-1942/) [You are in the Battle for Fuel: Are you keeping inside your Target? →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-you-are-in-the-battle-for-fuel-target-1942/)

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