'Bu kasdi tecavüze ğalip gelme...' [Overcoming This Premeditated Aggression], 1942 US poster: A photograph taken along

'Bu kasdi tecavüze ğalip gelme...' [Overcoming This Premeditated Aggression] (American Battleship North Carolina [Turkish])

A photograph taken along the deck of a US battleship shows its forward guns firing in a cloud of smoke, with sailors on the superstructure, above a Turkish quotation attributed to President Roosevelt, a US flag and his portrait, inside a blue border of stars. The quotation credited to the president backs the cause (testimonial), the flag and stars add national weight (transfer), and the text gives only US ship counts and claims of superiority (card-stacking).

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Testimonial Transfer Card stacking

Date: 1942
Period: Second World War
Made by: Office of War Information (OWI), U.S. Government (attributed from the NARA RG 44 series; no issuer imprint printed on the sheet)
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 (U.S. government work, NARA RG 44 OWI series)
Office of War Information, 1942-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44268429, 44-PF-R-4e).

Text on the object

Original (Turkish) · read from the image, not independently checked

"Bu kasdi tecavüze ğalip gelme zamanının ne kadar
sürecegi ahamiyetsizdir. Amerikan halkı toğru kuvveti ile
kat'i zaferi kazanacakdır."
—REİSİ CÜMHUR RUZVELT

Dünyanın en müstahkem ve mütecehhiz zırhlısı Birleşik
Amerika Devletlerinin bu zırhlısıdır. İnşa edilmekte olan 17
harp gemisinden tamamlanmış olan 4 zırhlı denize indirilmiş
ve bunlar Amerikan zırhlı adedini 32 ye çıkaracaktır ki
bu dünyada başka her hangi bir deniz kuvvetinin iki mislidir.
Birleşik Amerika Devletlerinin halihazırda 343 harp gemisi var-
dır. 345 tane daha inşa edilmektedir.

REİSİ CÜMHUR RUZVELT

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

"It does not matter how long it takes to overcome this premeditated aggression. The American people, with righteous strength, will win the decisive victory."
—PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

This is the battleship of the United States, the best fortified and best equipped battleship in the world. Of the 17 warships under construction, 4 completed battleships have been launched, and these will raise the number of American battleships to 32, which is twice that of any other navy in the world. The United States now has 343 warships. 345 more are being built.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT