![ابقاء البحار حرّة [Ensuring Freedom of the Seas], 1942 US poster: A photograph shows a US battleship's triple gun turret](../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
- 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
— 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
— 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
