![Ensuring Freedom of the Seas [Blank edition, no text], 1942 US poster: A photograph shows a US battleship's triple gun turret](../images/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-blank-1942.jpg)
Ensuring Freedom of the Seas [Blank edition, no text]
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 an uncaptioned portrait of President Roosevelt sit below an empty text panel; the flag, stars and presidential portrait lend national authority to the image (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
