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Description: | Concept: aircraft, civilian morale, propaganda, flag / banner / standard, military vehicles, weapons, military personnel Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a narrow white border. A smaller image is placed in the lower left, held within a white, circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned along the bottom edge, in black. All set against a grey background. image: a depiction of a Lancaster Bomber, being refuelled at an airfield. Several bombs are positioned alongside the aircraft on a line of trailers. Further aircraft and motor vehicles are visible in the background. The smaller image is of the Union Flag. text: F.D.A.6. [Persian text] ['Bezirk' bombs and the biggest raids in the world. On 30 May, when a German city for the first time suffered a raid carried out by a thousand bombers, panic spread in Germany. Cologne had just been 'Coventried' - according to the expression used by the Germans themselves after their attack on the British city of Coventry. Nevertheless the comparison is not quite right: Britain is trying to hit only military and industrial targets. Large-calibre bombs - weighing up to two metric tons - used by the British are known in Germany by the name of 'Bezirk' (neighbourhood) bombs because a single bomb is enough to wipe out a whole neighbourhood. The air offensive unleashed by Britain has forced the Germans to withdraw huge contingents of materiel and men from the Russian front. And that's just a beginning. Raids of the type launched on Cologne await other great German cities and will hasten the failure of the German effort on the Russian front. For freedom.] Object: aircraft, flag, bomb, truck | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5149... | Go to resource |
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