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title: Get the Jap and Get It Over! (War Manpower Commission)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/get-the-jap-and-get-it-over-wmc-1945/
description: A tattered Japanese rising-sun flag flies above a torn swastika flag on a broken pole; the headline 'Get the Jap and get it over!' is followed by a…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Ethnic slur ('Jap') in the headline, over a shot-through Japanese flag and a torn swastika flag. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Get the Jap and Get It Over! (War Manpower Commission)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/get-the-jap-and-get-it-over-wmc-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/get-the-jap-and-get-it-over-wmc-1945.jpg)

# Get the Jap and Get It Over! (War Manpower Commission)

A tattered Japanese rising-sun flag flies above a torn swastika flag on a broken pole; the headline 'Get the Jap and get it over!' is followed by a recruiting line for the U.S. Employment Service. The slur stands in for the whole nation and the two enemy flags are shown together as one ruin, so the Axis symbols, not an argument, carry the message.

## Text on the object

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

```
GET THE JAP
AND GET IT OVER!
Work where you're needed
SEE YOUR U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
```

Artist's signature 'Allen Saalburg' at lower right; Government Printing Office imprint at foot ('1945-O-648346') in small type.

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