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title: La Fortaleza Volante [The Flying Fortress]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-la-fortaleza-volante-spanish-1941/
description: A painting of a U.S. Army four-engined bomber seen from below fills the sheet under the Spanish title 'The Flying Fortress'.
section: Collection
---

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[![La Fortaleza Volante \[The Flying Fortress\], 1941 US poster: A painting of a U.S. Army four-engined bomber seen from below](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-ociaa-la-fortaleza-volante-spanish-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-ociaa-la-fortaleza-volante-spanish-1941.jpg)

# La Fortaleza Volante [The Flying Fortress]

A painting of a U.S. Army four-engined bomber seen from below fills the sheet under the Spanish title 'The Flying Fortress'. The tagline stacks virtue-and-power words ('pride', 'colossus', 'invincible master of space') over the aircraft, with no facts about missions or numbers.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
La Fortaleza Volante

Orgullo del ejército de los Estados Unidos...
Coloso entre los bombarderos...
dominador invencible del espacio

COORDINADOR DE ASUNTOS INTERAMERICANOS
COMMERCE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C.

[on the wings:] U.S. ARMY
[signature:] BOB WILLIAMS
```

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

```
The Flying Fortress

Pride of the army of the United States...
Colossus among bombers...
invincible master of space

COORDINATOR OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
COMMERCE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C.

[on the wings:] U.S. ARMY
[signature:] BOB WILLIAMS
```

[← 'Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América' (US portrait poster in Spanish)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-franklin-d-roosevelt-presidente-spanish-1941/) [La Unión es la Fuerza \[Union Is Strength\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-la-union-es-la-fuerza-arias-bernal-1941/)

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