I just got my hands on an interesting U.S. propaganda poster that seems to me to have some not-exactly-true pics. Isn´t the one with the title "Down to the sea in flames" from a Dakota with a couple of meatballs on it? And isn´t the whole scenery, kite included, on "Zero´s end", too perfect to come from an actual combat shot? Hope the size of the picture´s enough to appreciate it well.
The clues in the title Warlord! Propagander........look at it like a sales man trying to sell you double glazing and trying to earn his commission They will say or do what they can to get there their sale and in this case to get people to buy war bonds sign up or give metal etc for the war effort....... Josef Goebbels was the king of spin in WW2
But, I mean, beyond the propaganda nature of the print, what do you think about the pictures? Are they fakes?
To be sure, the propaganda and censoring machine took some liberties with photography during the war. Yes, it does look like a Dakota going down, the wing profile is unlike anything Japanese. As for the Zero, it is difficult to tell what exactly transpired. They didn't have Photoshop like they do today, so it was more difficult to fake, but the "I wanna believe we're giving 'em hell" mindset did the rest...
As historybuff says they never had the imagery software we have today but that did not stop them altering photograph..... The Germans altered a now famous picture of one of the first raids on Kenley Airfield during the battle of britain attacking the blast pens with Dornier 17's and Messerschmidt 110's.......it was oly after the war that the real pictures were found and they showed the planes in the pens were no where near as damaged as they claimed..... They had added what looked like smoke from bomb explosions
The "Dakota" going down in flames is a Japanese L2D, code named "Tabby". A copy of the DC-3. Click the link below to see it's basic history. japl2d
The "Dakota" going down in flames is a Japanese L2D, code named "Tabby". A copy of the DC-3. Click the link below to see it's basic history. japl2d Interesting... So it is a Dakota after all, with the small difference that it was manufactured in a tin toy shop, somewhere in Nipponland... So much for the scrap iron shipments that among other stuff, provoked the stab in the back at Pearl.
