Content note: Ethnic slur ('Japs') in the slogan; burning wrecks and armed infantry. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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.
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War-plant ammunition poster compiled in the War Production Board poster files; issuer not printed
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- 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 (NARA 534788, local id 179-WP-937), via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the US (published 1942 without a copyright notice); NARA: No Copyright - United States
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA 534788, 179-WP-937)
Text on the object
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.
