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title: Ensuring Freedom of the Seas [Icelandic]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-icelandic-1942/
description: A photograph shows the deck and superstructure of a US battleship with its gun barrels firing into a cloud of smoke and sailors in the foreground.
section: Collection
---

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[![Ensuring Freedom of the Seas \[Icelandic\], 1942 US poster: A photograph shows the deck and superstructure of a US battleship](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-icelandic-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-icelandic-1942.jpg)

# Ensuring Freedom of the Seas [Icelandic]

A photograph shows the deck and superstructure of a US battleship with its gun barrels firing into a cloud of smoke and sailors in the foreground, above an Icelandic text block, a US flag and a portrait of President Roosevelt. The text gives only the ship's cost, firepower and fleet counts and frames the ships as the US answer to those who would prevent free navigation (card-stacking), and the flag and presidential portrait lend 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 (Icelandic) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HÖFIN SKULU VERA FRJÁLS

Sextán þumlunga fallbyssurnar á þessú nýja Bandaríkja herskipi sem,
sýndar eru á þessari mynd skjóta kúlum sem koma niður 26 mílur
frá skipinu. Þetta er herskip sem kostaði 65 milljónir dollaraog er eitt af
fimm sem nýlega hefur verið hleypt af stokkunum og á það ekki jafninga
sinn hvað viðvíkur vopnum og skotmagni. Bandaríkjin hafa nú 343
herskip á sjónum og nú er verið að smíða 345 til viðauka og eru þessi
herskip svarið sem Bandaríkjin gefa þeim þjóðum sem gera tilraun til þess
fyrirbyggja frjálsar siglingar.

ROOSEVELT, FORSETI
```

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

```
THE SEAS SHALL BE FREE

The sixteen-inch guns on this new United States warship, shown in this picture, fire shells that come down 26 miles from the ship. This is a warship that cost 65 million dollars and is one of five recently launched, and it has no equal in weapons and firepower. The United States now has 343 warships at sea and 345 more are now being built, and these warships are the answer the United States gives to those nations that attempt to prevent free navigation.

ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT
```

[← להגנת החופש בים! \[Ensuring Freedom of the Seas\] \[Hebrew\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-hebrew-1942/) ['Conservando os Mares Livres' \[Keeping the Seas Free\] (Ensuring Freedom of the Seas \[Portuguese\]) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-ensuring-freedom-of-the-seas-portuguese-1942/)

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