Content note: Shows a bloodied blade and a club raised over a fallen figure, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Give 'im hell!
A worker swings a spiked club labelled PRODUCTION and holds a bloodied blade over a fallen armoured figure in a helmet labelled WAR, atop a globe ringed with flames. War is personified as the enemy to be beaten, a name-calling device, and factory output is cast as the weapon (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- J. P. Seeburg Corp., Chicago (artist Hamill)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military, Labor
- 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)
J. P. Seeburg Corp., Chicago (artist Hamill). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-875 (NAID 514380).
Text on the object
PRODUCTION WAR GIVE 'IM HELL! [signature: HAMILL] [imprint: © 1942, J.P. SEEBURG CORP., CHICAGO]
