'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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos), Washington
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work, NARA RG 44 OWI series)
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, c. 1942. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44268135, 44-PF-819e).
Text on the object
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.
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.
