!["A bandeira americana não se deixará varrer dos mares" [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas], 1942 US](../images/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-portuguese-1942.jpg)
"A bandeira americana não se deixará varrer dos mares" [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas] (Portuguese 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 a Portuguese 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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (foreign-language edition; NARA lists no artist or printer)
- 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 (US federal government work: Office of War Information, NARA Record Group 44)
Office of War Information, c. 1942-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, Office of Government Reports, WWII Foreign Posters
Text on the object
"A BANDEIRA AMERICANA NÃO SE DEIXARÁ VARRER DOS MARES" ...PRESIDENTE ROOSEVELT. A América está duplicando a tonelagem da sua marinha, que é já atualmente a mais poderosa do mundo, para o fim de não permitir que os mares possam ser escraviza- dos por qualquer potência agressora, assegurando, ao contrário, a liberdade dos mesmos, assim para os fortes como para os fracos. O que aí se vê a ser lançado é um dos 17 novos couraçados, cada qual de 35 mil toneladas, ou mais, elevando o total a mais do dôbro do que dis- ponha qualquer outra nação. PRESIDENTE ROOSEVELT
"THE AMERICAN FLAG WILL NOT LET ITSELF BE SWEPT FROM THE SEAS" ...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. America is doubling the tonnage of its navy, which is already the most powerful in the world, so as not to allow the seas to be enslaved by any aggressor power, ensuring instead their freedom, for the strong and for the weak alike. What you see being launched there is one of the 17 new battleships, each of 35 thousand tons or more, raising the total to more than double what any other nation has. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
