Paper Bombs:
The use of leaflets during wartime has been a vital tool for many decades. Many such posters are used for propoganda, attempting specific parties to side with one side or the other.Such posters are not limited to the United States either, these "Paper Bombs" have been used in a multitude of nations, including the Japanese, evidenced by the image on the left (artist unknown).
These leaflets were also used for the U.S' benefit during the Cold War. Routinely dropped during maneuvers by the Defense Department in an effort to show troops what they may expect under real combat situations. Included but not necessarily limited to, they fell under four types of messages:
a. Leaflets dropped by the U.S. forces on the enemy.
b. Leaflets drooped by the simulated "aggressor" on the U.S. Army
c. Leaflets distributed by the aggressor designed to demoralize U.S. troops by focusing on their
daily deprivations
d. Leaflets designed by the aggressor to terrorize U.S. troops.
Images:a. “Give me four years’ time”, 1937 Nazi photomontage used in Iron Fists
b. Form of Soviet Propoganda - Artist/Date Unknown
c. Untitled Nazi Propoganda
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