Keep 'em ALL flying!
Company-sponsored poster: a grid of 33 national flags, each with a small scene and country label, around five marching figures (worker, soldier, sailor, marine, woman war worker) carrying a U.S. flag under the heading 'United Nations'. The sponsor's tag line sits at the foot. Allied flags and symbols lend unity and prestige to the sponsor's name, a transfer; the slogan itself is a broad rallying phrase.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Koppers Company and Affiliates (artist H. Steffan)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Koppers Company and Affiliates. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1165 (NAID 514761).
Text on the object
KEEP 'EM ALL FLYING! UNITED NATIONS [flag labels:] UNITED KINGDOM, CHINA, U.S.S.R. (RUSSIA), AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, CANADA, COSTA RICA, CUBA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, ETHIOPIA, FRANCE, GREECE, GUATEMALA, HAITI, IRAQ, HONDURAS, INDIA, UNITED STATES, LUXEMBOURG, MEXICO, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND, NICARAGUA, NORWAY, PANAMA, PHILIPPINES, POLAND, SOUTH AFRICA, YUGOSLAVIA, BOLIVIA, DENMARK [signature: H. STEFFAN MAY 1, 1943] The industry that serves all [caret insertion: War] industry ... Koppers Company and Affiliates [imprint: PRINTED IN U.S.A.]
