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315. Anon: Back Them Up!
Hard charging tank - one of the great tank posters of the war. Mark I Cruisers careen across the North African desert easily crunching enemy barbed wire. Vibrant color adds to the visual excitement of the image.
Rare. 30x20 NML $950.
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Crouching low, British commandos advance under enemy fire in the struggle for the strategic Norwegian port of Narvik. The Germans used its ice free harbor to ship badly needed high grade Swedish iron ore to the embattled Reich. Churchill had originally wanted to mine the harbor, the invasion was a disaster.
30x20 NML $650.
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A massive RAF bombing raid on Italy is in progress. Text notes that heavy bombers often flew a distance of 1,200 miles over the 15,0000 foot Alps to bomb the industrial cities in northern Italy. Out of a total population of over 45,000,000, 180,000 Italian civilians were casualties during World War II.
Very rare. 30x20 NML $850.
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Blenheim bombers strafe and bomb Japanese supply barges on Burma's Chindwin River. After Rangoon fell (March '42) British planes flew out of isolated airstrips which lacked early warning systems; this often resulted in their destruction on the ground making this action a rare success.
30x20 NML $485.
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Thirteen Japanese flying-boats were smashed in a heavy RAF raid on the harbour of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. After taking Burma from the English, the Japanese occupied Port Blair because it offered them an excellent anchorage in the oil rich Andaman Islands.
30x20 NML $635.
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Dramatic poster shows an unusual sea battle in which a British cruiser rams an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean. The Italians had a large navy modernized by Mussolini in the years leading up to the war. It protected Italian and German merchantmen ferrying men and supplies to North Africa.
Quite rare. 30x20 NML $585.
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Hands raised, Italians surrender to the British 8th Army in the Western Desert. Although the Italians had an army of 236,000 in North Africa, they were kept off balance by the daily armored and motorized raids launched across the Libyan frontier at them by the British 7th Armored Division.
30x20 NML $445.
World War II: British Blitz and Blackout |
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A firebomb, transformed into a mechanical monster with sinister eyes and hands of flame, hurtles to earth. In 1940 and 1941 England's industrial and population centers were pounded with German incendiaries.
30x20 NML $875.
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Hand held fire hose sprays a stream of fire retardant over the poster’s flaming title which doubles as poster's brief text. The Luftwaffe wanted to avenge a token RAF strike on Berlin with a massive assault on London which caused losses for their air crews and British civilians as well.
30x20 NML $585.
World War II: British Aid for Allies |
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Just beyond a harbor's breakwater, a camouflaged, heavy cruiser cuts a long wake as it sets out on patrol. The shore that they are guarding belongs to the colony of South Africa. Over 24,000 men, called Springboks, were killed or wounded fighting for the allies.
19x14 NML $250.
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Camouflaged British armor rolls across a hot and hilly African terrain. British influence was strong in South Africa, then a part of the British Commonwealth. The tanks pictured here may well be the British Infantry Tank Mark Mk1, known as Matildas. They usually accompanied troops who moved at a walk. Poster’s colors are as hot as the arid landscape they depict.
19x14 ML $325.