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: 9 Jul 1940 Battle of Calabria [Battle of Punta Stilo, the toe of Italy] fought between the Italian Royal Navy and the British/Australian Royal Navies, 30 miles [48km] east of Punta Stilo. More ?

9 Jul 1943 US-British invasion of Sicily begins [night of 9-10 Jul].
9 Jul 1944 British and Canadian forces capture Caen from the Germans, a critical post-D-Day objective in Normandy, France.
9 Jul 1944 US forces reach the northern end of Saipan, finding thousands of Japanese civilian men, women, and children who commit suicide by leaping off the cliffs rather than be captured.
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