!['L'avion de combat le plus rapide du monde' [The Fastest Fighting Plane in the World], 1942 US poster: A photograph](../images/us-owi-worlds-fastest-fighting-plane-french-1942.jpg)
'L'avion de combat le plus rapide du monde' [The Fastest Fighting Plane in the World] (World's Fastest Fighting Plane [French])
A photograph of a twin-boom US fighter in flight sits above a French text block, a US flag and a portrait of President Roosevelt, inside a blue border of stars. The flag and president's portrait attach national authority to the aircraft (transfer), and the text offers a superlative speed claim and production figures with no counter-figures (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (OWI), U.S. Government (attributed from the NARA RG 44 series; no issuer imprint printed on the sheet)
- 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
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- 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 (U.S. government work, NARA RG 44 OWI series)
Office of War Information, 1942-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44268413, 44-PF-R-3g).
Text on the object
L'AVION DE COMBAT LE PLUS RAPIDE DU MONDE Le nouvel avion de chasse américain est lourdement armé et peut faire plus de 725 kilomètres à l'heure en vol hori- zontal. Ses possibilités d'évolution à de hautes altitudes en font un des avions les plus importants qui aient été créés durant la guerre. Les Etats-Unis ont plus que doublé leurs usines d'aviation et sont en voie de constituer une force aérienne formidable. La politique nationale de l'Amérique, d'accord avec la volonté du peuple, est de rendre impossible le triomphe des pays aggresseurs. LE PRÉSIDENT ROOSEVELT
THE FASTEST FIGHTING PLANE IN THE WORLD The new American fighter plane is heavily armed and can do more than 725 kilometres an hour in level flight. Its manoeuvring capability at high altitudes makes it one of the most important aircraft created during the war. The United States has more than doubled its aircraft factories and is on the way to building a formidable air force. America's national policy, in accord with the will of the people, is to make the triumph of the aggressor nations impossible. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
