WW I Poster: Join the Air Service Learn-Earn

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This poster, by an unknown artist, is one of a series developed to recruit for the new Air Service. It features the Air Service star and a collection of then state-of-the-art airships, both winged and lighter than air. The appeal is not patriotic, rather it is practical asking readers to consider the potential to learn and to earn money.

Very small under the wing of the center airplane, is the Air Service motto: "Give'er the Gun".

Today in WW II: 8 Feb 1940 Germans establish the first large Jewish ghetto in Poland in the city of Lodz. More ↓

8 Feb 1941 US House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act [265 to 165].
8 Feb 1942 Battle of Sarimbun Beach begins, the first stage of the Japanese assault on Singapore.
8 Feb 1942 Japanese Offensive in Burma begins [8 Feb-2 May].
8 Feb 1945 Battle of the Reichswald: British and Canadian forces under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery begin Operation Veritable [8 Feb-11 Mar].
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