Content note: Caricature of a Japanese officer with exaggerated teeth and yellow skin, wearing a swastika armband, held up beside a malaria mosquito. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Enemies both! It's your job to help eliminate them
Uncle Sam holds a caricatured Japanese officer wearing a swastika armband by the scruff in one hand and a tagged malaria mosquito in the other, under the headline 'Enemies both!'. Name-calling by pairing: the enemy and the disease are drawn as one kind of pest, with an appeal to servicemen to fight malaria.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (NAVMED 141-D), artist Frank Mack, 23rd Bomb
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, 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)
U.S. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-720 (NAID 514207).
Text on the object
ENEMIES BOTH! IT'S YOUR JOB TO HELP ELIMINATE THEM MALARIA [signature:] FRANK MACK 23rd Bomb. [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-601810 NAVMED 141-D
