'Amerikanska flaggið verður ekki hrakið af sjónum' [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas], 1942 US

'Amerikanska flaggið verður ekki hrakið af sjónum' [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas] (Icelandic edition)

A photograph of a large warship on the slipway at launch is set in a blue border of white stars, with a flag graphic, a captioned portrait of President Roosevelt and an Icelandic headline in quotation marks attributed to him. The attributed quotation is a statement by a named leader (testimonial), and the flag, stars and presidential portrait lend national authority to the picture (transfer).

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Testimonial Transfer

Date: 1942
Period: Second World War
Made by: Office of War Information (NARA RG 44 series; issuer not 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, c. 1942-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44268459, 44-PF-R-6a).

Text on the object

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

“AMERIKANSKA FLAGGIÐ VERÐUR
EKKI HRAKIÐ AF SJÓNUM”
... ROOSEVELT, FORSETI

Amerika er að tvöfalda herskipa flota sinn, alla reiðu sá sterkasti floti í heimi. Með því að efla þannig flotann, verður stemt stigu fyrir því að ofstopa flokkar nái þrælataki á höfunum. Höfin verða þarafleiðandi frjáls fyrir allar þjóðir, smáar og stórar. Hjer gefur að líta eitt af 17 nýjum herskipum, hvert um sig 35,000 tonn eða meira, samtals, 32, tvisvar sinnum fleiri enn nokkur önnur þjóð hefur.

ROOSEVELT, FORSETI

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

“THE AMERICAN FLAG WILL NOT BE DRIVEN FROM THE SEAS”
... ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT

America is doubling its fleet of warships, already the strongest fleet in the world. By strengthening the fleet in this way, violent bands will be stopped from gaining a stranglehold on the oceans. The seas will therefore be free for all nations, small and large. Here one sees one of 17 new warships, each of 35,000 tons or more, 32 in total, twice as many as any other nation has.

ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT