'La bandera norteamericana no será eliminada de los mares...' [The American Flag Will Not Be Eliminated from the Seas], 1942

'La bandera norteamericana no será eliminada de los mares...' [The American Flag Will Not Be Eliminated from the Seas] (The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas [Spanish])

A photograph of a battleship hull on the slipway at launch, with workers and crowds around it, sits above a Spanish 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 (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

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

“LA BANDERA NORTEAMERICANA NO
SERÁ ELIMINADA DE LOS MARES . . .”
. . . FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Presidente de los Estados Unidos

Norteamérica está doblando el tamaño de su Marina de Guerra, que actualmente es ya la más poderosa del mundo, con objeto de asegurar que los mares estén libres de cualquier grupo agresor, libres para todos los pueblos, los débiles tanto como los fuertes. La fotografía muestra el momento de la botadura de uno de los 17 nuevos acorazados, cada uno de 35.000 toneladas o más, con los cuales los Estados Unidos cuentan con un total de 32 buques de esa clase, dos veces el número de cualquier otra nación.

EL PRESIDENTE ROOSEVELT

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

"THE NORTH AMERICAN FLAG WILL NOT BE ELIMINATED FROM THE SEAS . . ."
. . . FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
President of the United States

North America is doubling the size of its Navy, which is already the most powerful in the world, in order to ensure that the seas are free of any aggressor group, free for all peoples, the weak as well as the strong. The photograph shows the moment of the launching of one of the 17 new battleships, each of 35,000 tons or more, with which the United States has a total of 32 ships of that class, twice the number of any other nation.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT