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Gallery History The RIAF in World War Two Recruitment Posters & Advertisements

Recruitment Posters & Advertisements

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"Serve yourself by serving the country"

Advertisement for Airmen / Ground crew from the Illustrated Weekly of India

Views: 210

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"Free Training for your post war Job"

Advertisement for Airmen / Ground crew from the Illustrated Weekly of India

Views: 286

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"India needs trained technicians"

Advertisement for Airmen / Ground crew from the Illustrated Weekly of India

Views: 216

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Thrills, Adventure and a Career
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Thrills, Adventure and a Career

Advertisement for Airmen / Ground crew from the Illustrated Weekly of India

Views: 199

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Pring and Singh
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Pring and Singh

This poster, released sometime in 1943 features Fg Offr A M O Pring of the RAF, and Fg Offr Harjinder Singh of the IAF. Pring attained fame by shooting down three night intruders over the skies of Calcutta. Harjinder Singh, who had started out as a Hawai

Views: 520

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"Protectors Today, Pioneers Tommorrow" - An ad for pilots of the IAF - derives some inspiration from the colour poster below

Views: 588

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"Only the Best" features an outline drawing based on the famous photograph of Wg Cdr Jumbo Majumdar in Europe.

Views: 674

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"Risings Sons who really shine" is another ad from around 1945, published in the Illustrated Weekly.

Views: 501

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Departing from the previous style, this ad simply lays out the "Vacancies" available in various ground duty streams"

Views: 508

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"This was not an airforce of the Mercenaries" proclaims this advertisement from the Illustrated Weekly, quoting from the book "With the 14th Army"

Views: 515

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Another vintage Indian Air Force recruitment poster from the Second World War - reproduced again in 1991 as part of a set of cards.

Views: 500

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An early ad from December 1940 asking for defence bonds - with the implication that the money would go for building the Indian Air Force.

Views: 606

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A vintage Indian Air Force recruitment poster from the Second World War extorts people to apply to the District Magistrate

Views: 580

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Poster-IAFVR-Color.jpg
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A Color version of the same recruitment poster. Inspite of the Hurricane in the background, the IAF was operating only Lysanders as the most modern equipment at that time.

Views: 778

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A black and white advertisement exhorting volunteers for the IAF Volunteer Reserve. The ad appeared in a magazine around December 1941, just as the war had broken out in the far east.

Views: 534

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