Avenge December 7
A sailor with a torn sleeve thrusts a clenched fist at the viewer above a burning, exploding warship, under the single command 'Avenge December 7'. The poster names no enemy or country; it pastes the stigma of the Pearl Harbor attack onto the demand for action, so the date does the work an argument would.
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information, OWI Poster No. 15 (artist signed Bernard Perlin)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (POS - WWII - US .J4 1942), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work: Office of War Information poster)
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (digital id cph.3g01663). Library of Congress rights statement: 'No known restrictions on publication.'
Text on the object
AVENGE December 7 OWI Poster No. 15. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C. U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]
The artist's script signature at lower right reads 'Bernard Perlin'. The printing-office imprint after 'U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE' is too small to read in this scan.
