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title: Le nouvel avion de bombardement [America's Newest Dive Bomber] (French edition)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-americas-newest-dive-bomber-french-1942/
description: An aerial photograph of a US Navy single-engine aircraft sits in a blue border of white stars, with a flag graphic and a captioned portrait (2 of 4)
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# Le nouvel avion de bombardement [America's Newest Dive Bomber] (French edition)

An aerial photograph of a US Navy single-engine aircraft sits in a blue border of white stars, with a flag graphic and a captioned portrait of President Roosevelt beside a short French text. The text claims the new dive bomber is faster, longer-ranged and carries a heavier bomb load than any other of its kind, with no figures or comparison given (card-stacking), and the flag, stars and presidential portrait lend national authority to the claim (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
LE NOUVEL AVION
DE BOMBARDEMENT

Voici l'arme aérienne la plus récente de la Marine améri-
caine. C'est aux Etats-Unis que fut inventée la technique
du bombardement en piqué, et le dernier modèle d'avions
de ce type est le plus rapide, tire à plus longue portée et
transporte une charge de bombes plus lourde que tous
les autres avions de ce genre. Les usines d'aviation améri-
caines ont plus que doublé en dimensions et en impor-
tance et elles continuent à s'étendre.

LE PRÉSIDENT ROOSEVELT

[on the aircraft:] U.S. NAVY
```

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

```
THE NEW DIVE-BOMBING AIRCRAFT

Here is the most recent air weapon of the American Navy. It was in the United States that the technique of dive bombing was invented, and the latest model of aircraft of this type is the fastest, fires at longer range and carries a heavier load of bombs than all other aircraft of this kind. The American aircraft factories have more than doubled in size and importance and they continue to expand.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

[on the aircraft:] U.S. NAVY
```

[← Ameriikan uusin syöksy-pommittaja \[America's Newest Dive Bomber\] (Finnish edition)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-americas-newest-dive-bomber-finnish-1942/) ['אוירון-עיט החדיש' \[The New Dive Bomber\] (America's Newest Dive Bomber \[Hebrew\]) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-americas-newest-dive-bomber-hebrew-1942/)

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