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title: Hurry That Ship Along, Will You? And Give Us Another Crack at the Japs!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hurry-that-ship-along-navy-iid-1943/
description: A smiling sailor in a white cap thumbs toward a photograph of two warships in dry dock under the headline 'Hurry that ship along, will you?' and the tag…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Ethnic slur ('Japs') in the text. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Hurry That Ship Along, Will You? And Give Us Another Crack at the Japs!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hurry-that-ship-along-navy-iid-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hurry-that-ship-along-navy-iid-1943.jpg)

# Hurry That Ship Along, Will You? And Give Us Another Crack at the Japs!

A smiling sailor in a white cap thumbs toward a photograph of two warships in dry dock under the headline 'Hurry that ship along, will you?' and the tag 'and give us another crack at the Japs!' The serviceman speaks to the shipyard worker as a customer waiting for the ship, and the enemy appears only as the slur in the last line.

## Text on the object

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

```
HURRY THAT SHIP ALONG
WILL YOU?

and

GIVE US ANOTHER CRACK
AT THE JAPS!

Industrial Incentive Division    Navy Department
```

The last line is the imprint at the lower right, in very small print; a ghosted mirror-image of the headline shows through at the bottom of the scan.

[← Hon. Spy Say: Thanks for the Can You Throw Away!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hon-spy-say-thanks-for-the-can-1943/) [Matchbox label, Japanese wartime propaganda in Malay: "Tentoe dapat kemenangan" (Victory will surely be won), No. 3 (c. 1943) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-java-propaganda-matchbox-1943/)

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