Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Spear of Attack

Spear of Attack

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Original – "Britain: Spearhead of Attack": propaganda poster showing how the branches of the economy (food, shipbuilding, power generation, coal, weapon manufacturing) coordinate to facilitate the Western Allied invasion of Germany.

Reason: Was seen on Commons FPC three years ago where it was featured unanimously. Quality reproduction.
Articles in which this image appears: United Kingdom home front during World War II
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Creator: Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services.

Support as nominator – MER-C 08:24, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This isn't really about the home front so adds little EV. Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:45, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - This is a gorgeous image, and rightly featured on Commons. Here, however... I find myself agreeing with Charles. The emphasis of the poster appears to be combat operations in continental Europe, rather than how British industry converted raw materials into the materiel necessary to continue the war. This may be due to the image's provenance; having been produced by the British Information Services in New York, and thus printed in the United States, it may have been intended more to get North Americans to contribute more to Britain's war efforts by highlighting how they are bringing the war to the Axis powers. Even the block of text at the lower-right is dedicated predominantly to the armed forces. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:49, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Essentially wartime propaganda, morale-booster. – Sca (talk) 13:27, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This is a fascinating image - it's notable, for instance, that it frankly shows that Allied bombers were firebombing German cities while the bombing of the occupied western European countries is shown as being focused on military and industrial targets. I agree though that the EV isn't strong in the only article it's currently being used in. Some discussion of the history of this image and what it sought to convey would also be helpful, as it's quite a complex graphic. Nick-D (talk) 22:33, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:05, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]