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title: ابقاء البحار حرّة [Ensuring Freedom of the Seas] (Arabic edition)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-arabic-1942/
description: A photograph shows a US battleship's triple gun turret firing, with smoke drifting across the deck and sailors watching from the left. (1 of 3)
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[![ابقاء البحار حرّة \[Ensuring Freedom of the Seas\], 1942 US poster: A photograph shows a US battleship's triple gun turret](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-arabic-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-arabic-1942.jpg)

# ابقاء البحار حرّة [Ensuring Freedom of the Seas] (Arabic edition)

A photograph shows a US battleship's triple gun turret firing, with smoke drifting across the deck and sailors watching from the left, in a blue border of white stars. A flag graphic and a captioned portrait of President Roosevelt sit beside an Arabic text that gives the guns' range, the ship's cost and fleet counts with no comparison to any other navy (card-stacking); the flag, stars and presidential portrait lend national authority (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 (Arabic) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
— ابقاء البحار حرّة —

هاك مدافع المدرعة الاميركيّة «نورث كارولينا» عيار ستّ عشرة بوصة تقذف
قنابل ثقل واحدتها طنّ كامل الى مدى ستّة وعشرين ميلا. وهذه المدرعة البالغ
ثمن بنائها ٦٥ مليون ريالا هي احدى خمس اخر انزلت الى البحر مؤخّرًا لا
نظير لها في متانة صفائحها وقوة سلاحها ونارها. وبفضل بوارجها الحربية
الكاملة الماخضة عباب المياه والبالغ عددها ٣٤٣ وبوارجها التي في دور البناء
والبالغ عددها ٣٤٥ يستطيع اسطول الولايات المتحدة ان يجابه اية محاولة
تقوم بها الدول المعتدية لاقفال مسالك بحار المعمور.

الرئيس روزڤلت
```

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

```
— ENSURING THE SEAS STAY FREE —

Here are the guns of the American battleship 'North Carolina', of sixteen-inch calibre, which hurl shells each weighing a full ton to a range of twenty-six miles. This battleship, whose construction cost 65 million, is one of five others recently launched, with no equal in the strength of its plates and the power of its weapons and its fire. Thanks to its complete warships ploughing the surface of the waters, numbering 343, and its warships under construction, numbering 345, the United States fleet can meet any attempt by the aggressor states to close the sea routes of the globe.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
```

[← Yeni Amerikan dalan bombardiman tayyaresi \[America's Newest Dive Bomber\] (Turkish edition)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-americas-newest-dive-bomber-turkish-1942/) [Ensuring Freedom of the Seas \[Blank edition, no text\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-blank-1942/)

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