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title: 'We Are United Nations: Unity Is Strength (Life wartime poster, part 12)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/life-we-are-united-nations-unity-is-strength-1942/
description: 'Blue wartime poster headed ''We are United Nations'': six black-and-white portraits of soldiers labelled Free France, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rhodesia…'
section: Collection
---

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# We Are United Nations: Unity Is Strength (Life wartime poster, part 12)

Blue wartime poster headed 'We are United Nations': six black-and-white portraits of soldiers labelled Free France, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rhodesia, Australia and Union of South Africa, beside a column of ten allied flags, with the line 'The fighting strength of the United Nations is no more than the combined efforts of the individual soldiers' and the slogan 'Unity is Strength'. The tell: six faces and ten flags stand in for the whole coalition, so each nation's symbols are lent to the 'United Nations' label (transfer).

## Text on the object

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

```
WE ARE UNITED NATIONS

[portrait captions] FREE FRANCE / POLAND / YUGOSLAVIA / RHODESIA / AUSTRALIA / UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA
[tiny credit under the Yugoslavia portrait] BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTO

The fighting strength of the United Nations is no more than the combined efforts of the individual soldiers

UNITY IS STRENGTH

[flag labels, top to bottom] UNITED STATES / NEW ZEALAND / NICARAGUA / NORWAY / PANAMA / PHILIPPINES / POLAND / UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA / U. S. S. R. / YUGOSLAVIA

[lower right] PREPARED BY LIFE
[bottom right corner] 12
```

The 'British Official Photo' credit is very small and read from an enlarged view.

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