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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" Is Our Battle Cry! First Class Fighting Men Needed
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · U.S. Army Air Forces recruiting, 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
An Army air recruiting poster of the Second World War, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-37A in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
Keep 'Em Flying was the official motto of the U.S. Army Air Corps, and this sheet sets it in quotation marks as a slogan the reader would already know.
What to notice
The A in the archive number marks it as one of a pair, and the quotation marks around the motto mark it as already famous.
A motto, raised to a battle cry.
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 Air Forces recruiting, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513526, local id 44-PA-37A), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513526 · 44-PA-37A
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 513526, 44-PA-37A): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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