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
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.
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Manpower Commission, with the U.S. Employment Service; artist signed Allen Saalburg
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-callingTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA 514373, local id 44-PA-868), Records of the Office of Government Reports, Record Group 44, series 'World War II Posters', retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. Government work; NARA use restriction 'Unrestricted')
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Text on the object
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.
