Catalogue Number
NMLH.2004.29.58
Object Name
Leaflet
Title
More Tanks, More Planes, More Guns Will bring Victory In 1942; Transport And Trafford Park; Stalingrad City Of Steel; East Manchester Branch Communist Party Meeting; Salute To The Soviet Union; The Dean Of Canterbury; Shop Stewards Ford Aero Workers; ...
Place
Trafford Park & Manchester & Lancashire & England & UK; Stalingrad & Russia: Soviet Union
People
Hitler, Harry Pollitt, W. Gallagher, F. Mitton, Winston Churchill, Ern Brooks, Barbara Niven
Events
War & World War II
Date
circa 1942
Description
The first major military front of World War II was in Communist Russia, following Hitler's massive invasion of Russia in June 1941. The Communist Party of Great Britain produced a wide range of leaflets in their campaign to get the Allied forces to attack and defeat Hitler in Europe, to open what was called a Second Front, and aid Russia. The party had an active membership in industrial Manchester and Lancashire.
'More tanks, planes and guns' was the call in Britain's manufacturing towns. The factory workers of Manchester's Trafford Park played an important part in supplying not only Britain's air, land and sea forces but also supplied the Russian war effort. Thousands of crucial electrical generators were produced in Trafford Park for Russia's cities.
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