!['Ameriikan lippua ei tulla poistamaan meriltä...' [The American Flag Will Not Be Driven from the Seas], 1942 US poster](../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
- 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 44268477, 44-PF-R-6k).
Text on the object
"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
"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
