'Amerikan bayrağı denizlerden sürülmeyecektir' [The American Flag Will Not Be Driven from the Seas], 1942 US poster

'Amerikan bayrağı denizlerden sürülmeyecektir' [The American Flag Will Not Be Driven from the Seas] (The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas [Azerbaijani])

A photograph of a battleship hull at its launch, with crowds at the water's edge, sits above a Turkish-orthography 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 policy (testimonial), the flag and stars add national weight (transfer), and the text cites only US battleship totals (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 44268465, 44-PF-R-6d).

Text on the object

Original (Turkish (labelled Azerbaijani by NARA)) · read from the image, not independently checked

AMERİKAN BAYRAĞI
DENİZLERDEN SÜRÜLMEYECEKTİR
—REİSİ CÜMHUR RUZVELT

Zayıf veya kuvvetli, herkese denizlerin hür kalmasını ve
denizlerin mütecaviz milletlerin boyunduruğu altına girmeme-
sinin temin için halihazırda dünyanın en kuvvetli donanmasına
malik olan Amerika, deniz kuvvetini bir misli daha arttırmak-
tadır. Resimde denize indirilmekte olan zırhlı, beheri 35,000
tondan fazla 17 yeni zırhlıdan biridir. Bunların adedi 32 ye
baliğ olacaktırki bu dünyada her hangi başka bir devletin zırhlı
adedinin iki mislidir.

REİSİ CÜMHUR RUZVELT

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

THE AMERICAN FLAG WILL NOT BE DRIVEN FROM THE SEAS
—PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

To ensure that the seas remain free for everyone, weak or strong, and do not fall under the yoke of aggressor nations, America, which already has the strongest navy in the world, is increasing its naval power by a further equal amount. The battleship being launched in the picture is one of 17 new battleships of more than 35,000 tons each. Their number will reach 32, which is twice the number of battleships of any other state in the world.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT