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title: British Aircraft Carriers Guard the Seas
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/british-aircraft-carriers-guard-seas-uk-1939/
description: A photograph of a British aircraft carrier at sea with a biplane in flight, over a text explaining what carrier aircraft do for convoys.
section: Collection
---

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[![British Aircraft Carriers Guard the Seas, 1939 UK poster: A photograph of a British aircraft carrier at sea with a biplane](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/british-aircraft-carriers-guard-seas-uk-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/british-aircraft-carriers-guard-seas-uk-1939.jpg)

# British Aircraft Carriers Guard the Seas

A photograph of a British aircraft carrier at sea with a biplane in flight, over a text explaining what carrier aircraft do for convoys. It is an explanatory image-and-text sheet; the closest honest technique fit is glittering generalities, from the 'For Freedom' emblem and the 'guard the seas' framing, with no specific claim to test.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
GUARD THE SEAS

AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER is a floating aerodrome. Planes can take off from its deck and fly many miles in search of enemy shipping or submarines, thus helping to protect our convoys. These planes are the eyes of the Navy and often help to rescue survivors from torpedoed merchant ships by reporting the exact position of a raft to a nearby naval vessel.

[emblem:] FOR FREEDOM
[sheet mark:] E.E.6.
```

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