The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the Royal Air Force relied on top-secret radar ...

However, in the end it was never officially issued to the public as a propaganda poster. It was one of a set of three posters, the other two being "Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution ...

Ira Hayes — World War II veteran, Iwo Jima flag-raiser, Pima Indian — ran head-on into the homefront propaganda machine ... and the photo became a poster (and later a stamp, and a massive ...