Content note: Ethnic slur ('Japs') in the text. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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.
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy Department, Industrial Incentive Division
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- 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 (NARA 535195, local id 179-WP-1345), via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. federal work; NARA-held; Commons tag PD-USGov-Treasury)
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA 535195, 179-WP-1345)
Text on the object
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.
