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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Fly!

Artifact IDMO 2005.13.22.38
Object Type Poster
Artist (American illustrator and painter, 1873-1952)
Issuing Body (American, founded 1919)
Date1944
Mediumpaper, ink
Dimensionsoverall H 40 in x W 25 in (101.6 cm x 63.5 cm )
Physical DescriptionA U.S. Army recruitment poster. The color poster features a large painted illustration of a young woman clasping the arm of a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot dressed in flight gear. The letters “AAF” and the Army Air Forces insignia are to the right of them. In the sky above the couple appears the image of Lady Liberty and the wording, “FLY! FOR HER LIBERTY AND YOURS.” The artist’s facsimile signature is in the lower right corner of the image: “Howard Chandler Christy / 1943 / Donated.” Printed text below the image states: "The Greatest Team in the World! U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES."

Issued by the Recruiting Publicity Bureau, United States Army, poster no. PX-416—RPB—4-5-44—5M.

Stapled to the bottom of the poster is a section cut from an earlier 1940 poster that reads “AAF EXAMINING BOARD / 480 Lexington Ave. New York, N.Y. / RPB—6-20-40—200.”
Additional Details
Custodial History NoteDonated to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum by the Adriance Memorial Library.
Credit LineGift of the Adriance Memorial Library
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesOriginal Posters from World War I and World War II (National Archives Identifier 739394)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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