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title: Bomber Distances
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bomber-distances-1942/
description: Poster with a globe map showing Tokyo to Hawaii at 3770 miles ('Result..PEARL HARBOR') beside Brest in occupied France to America at 3400 miles.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Enemy bombers with rising-sun markings and a bomb burst at Pearl Harbor. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Bomber Distances, 1942 US poster: Poster with a globe map showing Tokyo to Hawaii at 3770 miles ('Result..PEARL HARBOR')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bomber-distances-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/bomber-distances-1942.jpg)

# Bomber Distances

Poster with a globe map showing Tokyo to Hawaii at 3770 miles ('Result..PEARL HARBOR') beside Brest in occupied France to America at 3400 miles, and the question 'Result?'. Enemy bombers with rising-sun markings dive across the top. Two chosen distances stand in for the whole strategic picture (card-stacking), and the open 'Result?' leans on fear of another attack (fear-appeal) before the work slogan.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Bomber Distances
JAPAN
3770
MILES
PEARL HARBOR
BREST
(Occupied France)
3400
Miles
UNITED STATES
TOKYO to HAWAII
3770 miles
Result..PEARL HARBOR
BREST (Occupied France)
to AMERICA
3400 miles
Result?....
Fellow citizens, what's to prevent another Pearl Harbor?
NOTHING but WORK—Hard work—Honest work every
day, from every man, every woman, every machine.
-only Work
can make
US
STRONG!
[imprint: COPYRIGHT 1942 BY THE GRISWOLD-ESHLEMAN CO. LITHO U.S.A.]
```

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