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title: Global map for global war and global peace
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/global-map-global-war-global-peace-alcoa-1943/
description: 'Folded wall chart in blue frames: silhouettes for spotting friendly and enemy planes, formations, stunt flying, Army, Navy and Marine insignia.'
section: Collection
---

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# Global map for global war and global peace

Folded wall chart in blue frames: silhouettes for spotting friendly and enemy planes, formations, stunt flying, Army, Navy and Marine insignia, and photographs of aircraft construction. Only one panel carries the sponsor's name, Alcoa Aluminum. The technique is faint: it attaches the company's name to the prestige of the armed forces' insignia and aircraft.

## Propaganda techniques used in this advertisement

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ARMY
AIRFORCE SQUADRON INSIGNIA
NAVY
SPOTTING AIRPLANES
FORMATIONS
STUNTING
U. S. NAVY INSIGNIA
U. S. MARINE CORPS INSIGNIA
U. S. ARMY INSIGNIA
FIGHTING PLANES OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ENEMY PLANES
INDEX TO FRIENDLY PLANES:
INDEX TO ENEMY PLANES:
SOME GENERAL RECOGNITION CHARACTERISTICS
WINGS-BOTTOM VIEW
WINGS-FRONT VIEW
GENERAL COMMANDS  THE FOUR ARMIES  DIVISIONS
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS of the right-hand side of the interior of the fuselage of a typical U.S. Bomber. Great strength with lightness is obtained by making the frame of strong alloys of Alcoa Aluminum. The skin is not just a smooth covering which is "tacked on". It, too, is made of a very strong Alcoa Aluminum Alloy and takes its share of structural stresses.
LEFT SIDE of the same fuselage. Included here are most of the forms in which Alcoa Aluminum is used in an airplane: sheet, extruded shapes, rivets, tubing, castings, and forgings. Seventy-five per cent of the total weight of an airplane is aluminum, because it combines the lightness and strength, the workability, and the dependability of Alcoa Aluminum.
THE KINDS OF ALUMINUM IT TAKES TO MAKE AN AIRPLANE
SHEET  TUBING  EXTRUDED SHAPES  CASTINGS  FORGINGS  RIVETS
HOW ALUMINUM IS MADE
GLOBAL MAP
for GLOBAL WAR and GLOBAL PEACE
In 1872 it took 80 days to circle the world. In 1903, 54 days. In 1938, Howard Hughes flew 'round the world in 3 days, 19 hours, 8 minutes, 10 seconds. The three globes show how the airplane has shrunk our world.
We now have to look at the world with new eyes . . . and new thinking, too.
ALCOA ALUMINUM
[imprint:] © Aluminum Company of America. All data included were the most complete available on April 1, 1943
```

Long sheet: the insignia names, unit captions, plane index lists, the 'How aluminum is made' paragraph and the small print under the panels are not transcribed here.

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