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The World in Action presents War Birds
This poster for the 1943 film War Birds shows two hands releasing a carrier pigeon while in the background two airmen in an inflatable dinghy watch their plane sink.  Larger image
Harry Mayerovitch, film poster, 1943

A typical poster by the designer Harry Mayerovitch, embodying in a single image the film War Birds, about the use of carrier pigeons for location and sea rescues during the Second World War.

National Film Board of Canada