Content note: Caricatured Italian, Japanese and German figures being thrown back by a bayonet-wielding soldier, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
I'll give 'em hell! You give me the stuff!
Ordnance Department poster: a very large American infantryman with rifle and bayonet looms over three small caricatured figures in Italian, Japanese and German dress (the last with a swastika armband) who tumble backward, dropping swords and caps. The scale difference does the work; the ask to the worker is 'You give me the stuff'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army (artist Saul Tepper)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, 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)
Ordnance Department, U.S. Army (artist Saul Tepper). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1072 (NAID 514599).
Text on the object
I'll give 'em HELL! YOU GIVE ME THE STUFF! [signature: SAUL TEPPER] ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY KEEP 'EM SHOOTING! [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-470523]
