---
title: Drive the Japs from the Aleutians! Our Bullets Will Do It!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/drive-the-japs-from-the-aleutians-1942/
description: Infantrymen with bayoneted rifles look down on a beach where a rising-sun flag flies over burning wrecks and tents while a US bomber crosses a sky…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Ethnic slur ('Japs') in the slogan; burning wrecks and armed infantry. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Drive the Japs from the Aleutians! Our Bullets Will Do It!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/drive-the-japs-from-the-aleutians-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/drive-the-japs-from-the-aleutians-1942.jpg)

# Drive the Japs from the Aleutians! Our Bullets Will Do It!

Infantrymen with bayoneted rifles look down on a beach where a rising-sun flag flies over burning wrecks and tents while a US bomber crosses a sky lettered 'Drive the Japs from the Aleutians!'; a speech panel adds 'Our bullets will do it!' The enemy is named by slur and the audience's work is credited with the result. No Japanese figure is drawn close up.

## Text on the object

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

```
DRIVE THE JAPS
FROM THE
ALEUTIANS!

Our Bullets
Will Do It!

(Lower right, artist's signature: [illegible], possibly 'Gene Mark')
```

The signature is too small and stylised in this scan to read with confidence.

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