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title: Vopnið sem tryggir sigur að endalokum [The Final Victory Weapon] [Icelandic]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-final-victory-weapon-icelandic-1942/
description: An aerial photograph of a four-engined US bomber with a star roundel sits in a blue frame of stars, above a US flag, a portrait labelled 'Roosevelt.
section: Collection
---

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[![Vopnið sem tryggir sigur að endalokum \[The Final Victory Weapon\] \[Icelandic\], 1942 US poster: An aerial photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-final-victory-weapon-icelandic-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-final-victory-weapon-icelandic-1942.jpg)

# Vopnið sem tryggir sigur að endalokum [The Final Victory Weapon] [Icelandic]

An aerial photograph of a four-engined US bomber with a star roundel sits in a blue frame of stars, above a US flag, a portrait labelled 'Roosevelt, President' and text claiming a thousand such aircraft a month in 1942. The tell is transfer: the flag, stars and president's portrait lend national authority to a production claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
VOPNIÐ SEM TRYGGIR
SIGUR AÐ ENDALOKUM

Hin “Fljúgandi virki,” sem Amerika sendi, eru vopn sem óvinirnir áttu ekki von á. Þau fljúga 40.000 fet uppí loftið (hin nýjasta gerð javnvel hærra) og þarafleiðandi geta hverki loftvarnarbyssur, eða flugvjelar sem hæðst fljúga valdið þeim neinn baga. Fjögur stór-verkstæði í Bandarikjunum eru nú að smíða þessar feiknar stóru sprengivjelar, ásamt afar mikilfenglegri nýrri verkstöð, sem Henry Ford ljet byggja aðallega til þess að koma fleirum af þessum svonefndu Fljúgandi virkjum á framfæri. Amerikanskir verkfræðingar munu geta með aðstoð þess mikla bolmagns sem felst í auð og verklægni Bandarikja manna smíðað þúsund af þessum Fljúgandi virkjum á mánuði 1942.

ROOSEVELT, FORSETI
```

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

```
THE WEAPON THAT ENSURES
VICTORY IN THE END

The 'Flying Fortresses' that America sent are weapons the enemies did not expect. They fly 40,000 feet up into the air (the newest type even higher) and therefore neither anti-aircraft guns nor the aircraft that fly highest can cause them any trouble. Four large factories in the United States are now building these enormously large bombers, along with an exceedingly great new plant that Henry Ford had built chiefly to bring more of these so-called Flying Fortresses forth. American engineers will be able, with the help of the great strength that lies in the wealth and industrial skill of the Americans, to build a thousand of these Flying Fortresses a month in 1942.

ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT
```

[← 'כלי הזיין בעד הנצחון הסופי' \[Weapon for the Final Victory\] (The Final Victory Weapon \[Hebrew\])](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-final-victory-weapon-hebrew-1942/) [The Final Victory Weapon \[Portuguese\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-final-victory-weapon-portuguese-1942/)

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