--- title: Your 'Spitfires' in Action (Thank You, Gibraltar!) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-your-spitfires-in-action-gibraltar-1939/ description: Four painted panels show Spitfires bought with Gibraltar subscriptions shooting down German bombers and strafing a harbour with a swastika flag. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Your 'Spitfires' in Action (Thank You, Gibraltar!) [![Your 'Spitfires' in Action, 1939 UK poster: Four painted panels show Spitfires bought with Gibraltar subscriptions shooting](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-your-spitfires-in-action-gibraltar-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-your-spitfires-in-action-gibraltar-1939.jpg) # Your 'Spitfires' in Action (Thank You, Gibraltar!) Four painted panels show Spitfires bought with Gibraltar subscriptions shooting down German bombers and strafing a harbour with a swastika flag, closing with 'Thank you, Gibraltar!' and a list of other war gifts. The tell for card-stacking is that only successful actions are shown and no losses or numbers are given, and for transfer the Gibraltar crest and the swastika flag set against the RAF roundels. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` YOUR 'SPITFIRES' IN ACTION Subscriptions from Gibraltar have bought three 'Spitfire' fighter aircraft for Britain. These planes protect British homes and industries from aerial attack and harass enemy shipping and transport. When enemy bombers approach Britain, the fighters go up to drive them away. Here is a Gibraltar fighter plane shooting down an enemy bomber over one of Britain's industrial towns. Gibraltar fighter planes also take part in offensive sweeps over enemy-occupied territory and cause much damage to shipping and transport and communications with their machine-gun fire. Gibraltar fighters protect Allied merchant ships from hostile aircraft. Many vital cargoes have reached port only because of the watchful presence of fighter planes. Thank you, Gibraltar! Other war gifts from Gibraltar include contributions to His Majesty's Government for the prosecution of the war, mobile canteens, a W.V.S. mobile library, subscriptions for British Red Cross and St. John Fund, Air Raid Relief, King George's Fund for Sailors, Aid to Russia Fund, Prisoners of War Fund, St. Dunstan's, Merchant Navy Comforts Fund, Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Fund and other war funds. [imprint:] PRINTED IN ENGLAND 51-9442 [crest motto:] MONTIS INSIGNIA CALPE ``` [← Your Health in War-Time: Learn How to Keep Fighting Fit (exhibition, Charing Cross Underground Station)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-your-health-in-war-time-fighting-fit-exhibition-1939/) [Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-your-talk-may-kill-your-comrades-1939/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.