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title: For Freedom
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/for-freedom-american-british-sailors-1941/
description: Wide poster of two sailors in profile facing each other, a U.S. Navy rating on the left and a Royal Navy rating on the right.
section: Collection
---

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[![For Freedom, 1941 US poster: Wide poster of two sailors in profile facing each other, a U.S. Navy rating on the left](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/for-freedom-american-british-sailors-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/for-freedom-american-british-sailors-1941.jpg)

# For Freedom

Wide poster of two sailors in profile facing each other, a U.S. Navy rating on the left and a Royal Navy rating on the right, with a line of warships on the horizon between them. A U.S. flag and a Union Jack sit under them beside the line '..For FREEDOM'. The tell is the glittering generality 'freedom', tied by the paired flags and uniforms to the Anglo-American partnership.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
[signature:] ADOLPH TREIDLER
..For FREEDOM
DISTRIBUTED BY THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR INTER-ALLIED UNITY
```

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