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title: '''Ameriikan lippua ei tulla poistamaan meriltä...'' [The American Flag Will Not Be Driven from the Seas] (The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas [Finnish])'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-finnish-1942/
description: A photograph of a battleship hull on the slipway at launch, with workers and crowds around it, sits above a Finnish quotation attributed to President
section: Collection
---

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[!['Ameriikan lippua ei tulla poistamaan meriltä...' \[The American Flag Will Not Be Driven from the Seas\], 1942 US poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-finnish-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-finnish-1942.jpg)

# 'Ameriikan lippua ei tulla poistamaan meriltä...' [The American Flag Will Not Be Driven from the Seas] (The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas [Finnish])

A photograph of a battleship hull on the slipway at launch, with workers and crowds around it, sits above a Finnish 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](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"AMERIIKAN LIPPUA EI TULLA
POISTAMAAN MERILTÄ..."
... PRESIDENTTI ROOSEVELT

Ameriikan laivastoa, joka on jo mailman mahtavin tullaan
yhä laajentamaan, ollaksemme varmat, että valtaajat eivät or-
juuta mailman meriä, vaan että ne voidaan pitää vapaina, sekä
heikoille, että vahvoille. Yllä oleva kuva, kuvaa yhtä niistä 17
taistelulaivasta, joita on laskettu vesille, jokainen niistä on 35,000
tonninen tai suurempi, näiden taistelulaivojen lukumäärä kohoaa
täten 32, joka on kaksinkertaisesti minkään muun maan taistelu-
laivojen lukumäärä.

PRESIDENTTI ROOSEVELT
```

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

```
"THE AMERICAN FLAG WILL NOT BE DRIVEN FROM THE SEAS..."
... PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

The American navy, which is already the mightiest in the world, will be expanded still further, so that we can be sure that aggressors do not enslave the world's seas, but that they can be kept free, for the weak and the strong alike. The picture above shows one of the 17 battleships that have been launched, each of them of 35,000 tons or more; the number of these battleships thereby rises to 32, which is twice the number of battleships of any other country.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
```

[← The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas \[Blank\] (text-free edition)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-blank-1942/) [Le pavillon américain ne sera pas chassé des mers! \[The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas\] (French edition) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-french-1942/)

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