Content note: Wartime cartoon using the enemy-war-aim wording of 1942 as printed, including the term 'Jap'. This object is shown as it was published. Why
It's on the Order Book... Just a Problem of Delivery
Cartoon reprint: a shirtless worker banded 'American Workers' tends a ladle of 'Mechanized Warfare' in a foundry while a bearded figure holds up a 'History' ledger of victories with the day, month and year left blank. The tell is the blank ledger ending in 'Peace - with justice, and plenty of it!', which ties the worker's output to abstract goals.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon by Orr, copyright The Chicago Tribune)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, 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)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1129 (NAID 514656).
Text on the object
YOU FILL IN THE DATES HISTORY DAY MO. YR. JAP NAVY DESTROYED TOKIO BOMBED MIKADO SEIZED NAZI ARMY BEATEN HITLER CAPTURED MUSSOLINI ARRESTED PEACE - WITH JUSTICE, AND PLENTY OF IT! MECHANIZED WARFARE AMERICAN WORKERS [imprint: Copyright, 1942, by The Chicago Tribune.] [signature: ORR] "It's on the Order Book... Just a Problem of Delivery"
