戰機萬架掃蕩三島 (Ten Thousand Warplanes Sweep the Three Islands), U.S. Office of War Information poster in Chinese

A tall narrow Chinese-language sheet: a photograph of a four-engine U.S. bomber with the USAAF star on a blue field above a red panel with the slogan that ten thousand warplanes will sweep the 'three islands'. The tell: a round number of aircraft is offered as the whole case, so the claim of overwhelming momentum stands in for evidence of how or when.

Date: 1943
Period: Second World War
Made by: U.S. Office of War Information (poster printed and issued by the "U.S. Government Propaganda Department", 美國政府宣傳部)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Roosevelt Administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Media and information
Event: World War II
Techniques: Bandwagon
Regime: Roosevelt administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), OWI Bureau of Special Services file, via DPLA/Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (U.S. federal work; NARA: No Copyright - United States)
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (Office of War Information, Bureau of Special Services), via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons

Text on the object

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

戰機萬架
掃蕩三島

美國政府宣傳部印發

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Ten thousand warplanes / sweep the three islands

Printed and issued by the U.S. Government Propaganda Department

The slogan is set in two vertical columns, read right to left. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.