'Hin nyjasta steypisprengivjel Bandaríkjanna' [The Newest Dive Bomber of the United States], 1942 US poster: A photograph

'Hin nyjasta steypisprengivjel Bandaríkjanna' [The Newest Dive Bomber of the United States] (America's Newest Dive Bomber [Icelandic])

A photograph of a US Navy aircraft in flight over farmland sits above an Icelandic text block, a US flag and a portrait of President Roosevelt, all framed by a blue border of stars. The flag, stars and president's portrait lend national authority to the aircraft (transfer), and the text lists only its strengths: longer range, heavier bomb, doubled factory output (card-stacking).

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Transfer Card stacking

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
Themes: War and the military, Science and technology
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 44268365, 44-PF-R-1a).

Text on the object

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

HIN NYJASTA STEYPISPRENGIVJEL
BANDARÍKJANNA

Steypisprengivjel Bandaríkjanna er eitt af nýjustu varnargögnum flotans.
Bandaríkja flotinn var sá fyrsti sem byrjaði steypisprengingar, og þessi vjel,
sem mynd er af hjer að ofan, skýtur lengra og hefur þyngri sprengikúlu en
nokkur önnur þesskonar vjel nokkursstaðar. Loftskipa verkstæði í Bandarikj-
unum hafa töfaldast nýlega og eru enn að færast í aukana.

ROOSEVELT, FORSETI

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

THE NEWEST DIVE BOMBER OF THE UNITED STATES

The dive bomber of the United States is one of the newest defence weapons of the fleet. The United States fleet was the first to begin dive-bombing, and this machine, of which a picture is shown above, shoots farther and has a heavier bomb than any other such machine anywhere. Airship [aircraft] factories in the United States have recently doubled and are still increasing.

ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT