Content note: Caricature of a Japanese soldier trampled underfoot, and a wartime slur ("Jap") in the object's title. This object is shown as it was published. Why
This American Airman Drives the Jap from China's Skies: Give Him Your Help! (Chinese New Year poster)
A U.S. Office of War Information poster in Chinese, headed 恭賀新禧 ('Happy New Year'), borrows the form of a Chinese New Year door-god print: an American airman with a submachine gun, the U.S. Army Air Forces star on his arm and a Chinese-flag patch on his shoulder, stands on a blue-faced Japanese soldier in front of the U.S. flag. The headline (LOC's English title is its translation) asks viewers to help him; the smaller text is addressed to Chinese in the occupied areas.
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Office of War Information (for distribution in China)
- 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, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- TransferPlain folks
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work, Office of War Information)
U.S. Office of War Information, 1945. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-702.
Text on the object
恭賀新禧 這個美國空軍把日本人趕出了中國的天空——援助他！ [illegible — several columns of smaller printed text beneath the headline, too small and low-resolution in this scan to transcribe reliably]
Happy New Year This American air force airman has driven the Japanese out of China's skies — help him! [illegible]
The dense small-print paragraph below the headline (per LOC's catalog, likely further appeal text for Chinese readers in occupied areas) is at the resolution limit of this Kodak transparency scan; not transcribed rather than guessed. The 'FEB 23 1945' stamp, 'Chungking' note, and the Kodak color/gray-scale reference strips in the frame are photographic apparatus, not part of the poster, and are excluded.
