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"Protectors Today, Pioneers Tommorrow" - An ad for pilots of the IAF - derives some inspiration from the colour poster below
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"Only the Best" features an outline drawing based on the famous photograph of Wg Cdr Jumbo Majumdar in Europe.
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"Risings Sons who really shine" is another ad from around 1945, published in the Illustrated Weekly.
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Departing from the previous style, this ad simply lays out the "Vacancies" available in various ground duty streams"
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"This was not an airforce of the Mercenaries" proclaims this advertisement from the Illustrated Weekly, quoting from the book "With the 14th Army"
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Another vintage Indian Air Force recruitment poster from the Second World War - reproduced again in 1991 as part of a set of cards.
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An early ad from December 1940 asking for defence bonds - with the implication that the money would go for building the Indian Air Force.
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A vintage Indian Air Force recruitment poster from the Second World War extorts people to apply to the District Magistrate
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A Color version of the same recruitment poster. Inspite of the Hurricane in the background, the IAF was operating only Lysanders as the most modern equipment at that time.
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A black and white advertisement exhorting volunteers for the IAF Volunteer Reserve. The ad appeared in a magazine around December 1941, just as the war had broken out in the far east.
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