--- title: '''La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas'', No. 12 (Spanish-language US poster, ''A US convoy'')' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-la-guerra-ilustrada-no-12-spanish-1942/ description: A photo-news sheet shows a US Navy lookout, a gun firing at night and destroyers in a storm, captioned as a US convoy carrying soldiers and materiel section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. 'La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas', No. 12 [!['La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas', No. 12, 1942 US poster: A photo-news sheet shows a US Navy lookout, a gun](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-ociaa-la-guerra-ilustrada-no-12-spanish-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-ociaa-la-guerra-ilustrada-no-12-spanish-1942.jpg) # 'La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas', No. 12 (Spanish-language US poster, 'A US convoy') A photo-news sheet shows a US Navy lookout, a gun firing at night and destroyers in a storm, captioned as a US convoy carrying soldiers and materiel to Europe 'in the invasion of Europe occupied by the Nazis'. The tell for card-stacking is selection: only photographs of protection, readiness and safe passage appear ('the convoy sails safely toward Europe'), with no losses. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` LA GUERRA ILUSTRADA NOTICIAS DE LAS AMERICAS Un torpedero de los Estados Unidos cumple su misión durante una tempestad en el Atlántico. Grandes cañones protegen al convoy durante la noche. UN CONVOY DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Esta serie de fotografías muestra uno de los grandes convoyes de los Estados Unidos navegando por el norte del Atlántico hacia Europa, cargado de soldados y de materiales que desempeñarán un importante papel en la invasión de la Europa ocupada por los nazis. Aunque el sol desaparece tras un mar tempestuoso, el convoy navega seguro hacia Europa. Un torpedero se acerca para proteger a los transportes cargados de soldados y de municiones. No. 12 Publicado por el Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos Commerce Department Building, Washington, D.C. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE WAR ILLUSTRATED NEWS OF THE AMERICAS A United States torpedo boat carries out its mission during a storm in the Atlantic. Big guns protect the convoy during the night. A CONVOY OF THE UNITED STATES This series of photographs shows one of the great United States convoys sailing across the North Atlantic toward Europe, loaded with soldiers and materiel that will play an important part in the invasion of Europe occupied by the Nazis. Although the sun disappears behind a stormy sea, the convoy sails safely toward Europe. A torpedo boat approaches to protect the transports loaded with soldiers and munitions. No. 12 Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Commerce Department Building, Washington, D.C. ``` [← General estadunidense Douglas MacArthur, Comandante en Jefe de la Zona del Suroeste del Pacífico \[American General Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief of the Southwest Pacific Area\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-general-macarthur-spanish-1942/) [La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas, No. 4 \[The War Illustrated: News of the Americas\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-la-guerra-ilustrada-no-4-spanish-1942/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.