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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
Keep 'Em Flying
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · U.S. Army Recruiting Service, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A long horizontal banner issued by the U.S. Army Recruiting Service, more than six times as wide as it is tall, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-1174, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
Keep 'Em Flying was the official motto of the U.S. Army Air Corps, and here the Army's recruiters carry it.
What to notice
The proportions of the sheet, a strip made for a long run of wall, and the recruiting service's imprint.
A motto, laid out like a runway.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Air Service and Air Forces
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Army Recruiting Service, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 514770, local id 44-PA-1174), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 514770 · 44-PA-1174
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 514770, 44-PA-1174): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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