Content note: Enemy bombers with rising-sun markings and a bomb burst at Pearl Harbor. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- The Griswold-Eshleman Co.
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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)
The Griswold-Eshleman Co.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-497 (NAID 513977).
Text on the object
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.]
