War Pictorial
A double-width photo sheet titled 'War Pictorial' combines four numbered photographs with captions: sailors carrying ammunition aboard HMS Argonaut, Army Film Unit cameramen filming an air raid, General Montgomery on a tank captioned 'The man who beat Rommel', and a six-pounder anti-tank gun captioned 'Death to the Axis tanks'. The tell for card-stacking is that only successful or active moments of one side are selected and captioned with triumphant framing, with no losses shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not stated (printed in England; page number 15)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- World War II
- 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; hosted by owner decision
Issuer not stated, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-501.
Text on the object
WAR PICTORIAL 1 THE AMMUNITION GOES ABOARD. SAILORS OF H.M.S. "ARGONAUT" CARRYING AMMUNITION ON TO THEIR SHIP. 2 THE MEN WHO TAKE THE PICTURES. MEN OF THE ARMY FILM UNIT FILMING AN AIR-RAID IN THE DESERT. 3 THE MAN WHO BEAT ROMMEL. GENERAL MONTGOMERY WATCHES THE BATTLE, WITH A TANK AS HIS GRAND-STAND. 4 DEATH TO THE AXIS TANKS. A SIX-POUNDER ANTI-TANK GUN IN ACTION IN NORTHERN AFRICA. [imprint:] 15 Printed in England.
