![Un Parachutiste de l'Armée [An Army Paratrooper], 1942 US poster: A colour photograph shows a helmeted US Army paratrooper](../images/us-ociaa-un-parachutiste-de-larmee-french-1942.jpg)
Un Parachutiste de l'Armée [An Army Paratrooper]
A colour photograph shows a helmeted US Army paratrooper, parachute pack on his chest, listening to a radio handset in front of the national star-and-bar roundel on an aircraft. The national emblem filling the background carries the country's prestige onto the soldier (transfer).
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 Interaméricaines), 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 44268225, local identifier 44-PF-858.
Text on the object
UN PARACHUTISTE DE L'ARMÉE Un parachutiste de l'armée des États-Unis reçoit ses instructions finales par radio avant de s'envoler Publié par le Coordinateur d'Affaires Interaméricaines, Commerce Department Building, Washington, D. C.
AN ARMY PARATROOPER A paratrooper of the United States Army receives his final instructions by radio before taking off Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Commerce Department Building, Washington, D.C.
