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).
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- LIFE magazine (Time Inc.), "Prepared by LIFE", part 12 of a series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- NoC-US (Hennepin County Library, via DPLA); US-published, no notice visible
Hennepin County Library (Digital Public Library of America), via Wikimedia Commons; Prepared by LIFE; downscaled.
Text on the object
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.
