Spanish Civil War Postcard 039

Item

Front of postcard (recto). Image of a group of cartoon soldiers under attack from airplanes overhead. There are three large explosions around the soldiers. There are two yellow planes in the sky. In the background, there are mountains.
Back of postcard (verso). Image of a page with text. Full text includes "159 Mistake in Identity Causes Loyalist Slaughter On January 27, 1938, a strong Loyalist attack on Singra, 24 miles north of Teruel, ended in a mad retreat when a squadron of foreign planes through a mistake in identity bombed and machine-gunned their own troops! The Loyalists in attempting to sever the Teruel-Saragossa highway had thrown four fresh brigades of infantry and three divisions of powerful Russian tanks into the battle. Not long after this action, 16 planes appeared over the front. Under orders to protect the advance from the east the planes mistook the Loyalist forces for the enemy and started to bomb them and strafe them with machine-gun fire. The terrible butchery lasted for a quarter of an hour, completely demoralizing the attacking troops. A whole unit of Loyalist infantry was said to have been wiped out through this awful mistake. To know the horrors of war is to want peace This is one of 240 True Stories of Modern Warfare. Save to get them all and compete for 1000 Cash Prizes. Ask your dealer. Copyright 1938, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa. Printed in U.S.A."

Title

Spanish Civil War Postcard 039

Rights

Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyrights held by original creators of individual items in the collection are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), were transferred to New York University in November 2000 by the ALBA Board of Governors. Permission to publish or reproduce ALBA materials must be secured from the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. For more information, contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.

Type

Still Image

Creator

Tamiment Library

Date

c. 1936-1938
1980-2000s

Language

Spanish

Publisher

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archive

Identifier

tw_scp_000039
ALBA.242

Item sets

Spanish Civil War