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title: להגנת החופש בים! [Ensuring Freedom of the Seas] [Hebrew]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-hebrew-1942/
description: A photograph of a US battleship firing a broadside, with sailors in the foreground, is framed by stars above a US flag.
section: Collection
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[![להגנת החופש בים! \[Ensuring Freedom of the Seas\] \[Hebrew\], 1942 US poster: A photograph of a US battleship firing a broadside](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-hebrew-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-hebrew-1942.jpg)

# להגנת החופש בים! [Ensuring Freedom of the Seas] [Hebrew]

A photograph of a US battleship firing a broadside, with sailors in the foreground, is framed by stars above a US flag, a portrait labelled 'President Roosevelt' and Hebrew text on a warship's cost and the count of US warships. The tells are transfer (flag, stars, presidential portrait) and glittering generality: 'freedom of the seas' as the stated cause.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
להגנת החופש בים!

אנית המלחמה של זאת ממשלה האמריקאית שהוכנסה עכשיו לשירות הים, קני-רובה הם בעלי 16 אינטשים, והם משליחים פצצות של טון אחד במרחק של 46 קילומטר. אנית-מלחמה זו נבנתה בהון של 65 מיליון דולרים. אנית זו היא אחת מחמש האניות שנגמרו לפני זמן קצר ואין בכל העולם כוחות זורקי-אש כמוהן. נגד הנסיון לשלול את חופש הים מכל שאר העמים, יש לה לאמריקה 343 אניות-מלחמה אקטיביות בים ועוד 345 נמצאות בבנינן החולך ומתקדם!

הנשיא רוזוולט
```

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

```
FOR THE DEFENCE OF FREEDOM AT SEA!

The warship of the American government that has now been put into naval service has gun barrels of 16 inches, and they hurl shells of one ton over a distance of 46 kilometres. This warship was built at a cost of 65 million dollars. This ship is one of five ships completed a short time ago, and there are no fire-throwing forces like them in the whole world. Against the attempt to rob all other peoples of freedom of the sea, America has 343 warships active at sea and another 345 in building, going forward and advancing!

President Roosevelt
```

[← Veillant à la liberté des mers \[Ensuring Freedom of the Seas\] \[French\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-french-1942/) [Ensuring Freedom of the Seas \[Icelandic\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-icelandic-1942/)

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