![Les Grands Canons Parlent [The Big Guns Speak], 1942 US poster: A colour photograph taken from a US warship shows a gun](../images/us-ociaa-les-grands-canons-parlent-french-1942.jpg)
Les Grands Canons Parlent [The Big Guns Speak]
A colour photograph taken from a US warship shows a gun firing across the sea, with a French caption saying the guns 'spew tons of shrapnel' at enemy defences before a landing. Only the firepower is shown, in a verb-heavy caption, and nothing of the cost or of the other side of the exchange (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Coordinateur d'Affaires Inter-Américaines), Washington, D.C.
- 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
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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 (US federal government work)
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 44268169, local identifier 44-PF-835.
Text on the object
LES GRANDS CANONS PARLENT Avant l'invasion terrestre les canons d'un vaisseau de guerre des États-Unis vomissent des tonnes de mitraille vers les défenses de l'ennemi. Publié par le Coordinateur d'Affaires Inter-Américaines, Washington, E. U. A.
THE BIG GUNS SPEAK Before the land invasion the guns of a United States warship spew tons of shrapnel toward the enemy's defences. Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A.
