Content note: Cartoon caricatures of German, Japanese and Italian figures (swastika armband, buck teeth and glasses, bandaged figure with an 'M' cap), shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
U.S. Industry Casualty List
Pen cartoon: a posted sign gives 'U.S. Industry Casualty List: Deaths 48,500, Crippled 258,000, Days lost 110,000,000', while three bandaged caricatured Axis figures with swastika, rising-sun and 'M' markings carry bundles beneath it. The figures are drawn as gainers from industrial accidents; the figures are presented without a source or period.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information, cartoon by Leo
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Home front, War and the military
- 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 Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-441B (NAID 513901).
Text on the object
U.S. INDUSTRY CASUALTY LIST DEATHS ...... 48,500 CRIPPLED ..... 258,000 DAYS LOST... 110,000,000 M [signature:] Leo FOR OWI [imprint:] OWI-1978
