Content note: Shows a caricature of a Japanese soldier with exaggerated features, a bloody sword and the slur 'Japs' on a card. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Is your organization prepared to fight both enemies?
Navy medical sheet in two panels. Left, a caricatured Japanese soldier with a bloody sword and a swastika armband holds a card reading 'Japs casualties one'; right, a giant mosquito holds a card reading 'Malaria casualties eight'. The comparison of casualty counts (card-stacking) frames malaria control as a second front. The enemy is drawn with the slur and caricature as printed.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (NAVMED 141-F), printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Health, War and the military
- 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)
U.S. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1109 (NAID 514636).
Text on the object
IS YOUR ORGANIZATION PREPARED TO FIGHT BOTH ENEMIES ? JAPS CASUALTIES ONE MALARIA CASUALTIES - EIGHT [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—601810] [imprint: NAVMED 141-F]
