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"Liberator" em Ação! ["Liberator" in Action!]
A colour photograph shows two gunners in a bomber's waist position firing belt-fed machine guns. The aircraft's name, 'Liberator', is a virtue word presented as the poster's headline, and the caption shows only American crews firing at interceptors.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Coordenador de Assuntos Interamericanos), Washington
- 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, Science and technology
- 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 44268171, local identifier 44-PF-836.
Text on the object
"LIBERATOR" EM AÇÃO! Os artilheiros de um "Liberator" americano num dos seus ataques fazem fogo contra aviões que tentam interceptá-lo. Publicado pelo Coordenador de Assuntos Interamericanos, Washington, E. U. A.
"LIBERATOR" IN ACTION! The gunners of an American "Liberator" on one of its raids fire on aircraft that try to intercept it. Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A.
