---
title: Jap... You're Next! We'll Finish the Job! (U.S. Army, James Montgomery Flagg)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jap-youre-next-flagg-army-1944/
description: An elderly, white-haired Uncle Sam in a star-spangled vest and striped trousers rolls up his sleeve and holds a large wrench, under the headline 'Jap...…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Ethnic slur in the headline; Uncle Sam with a wrench. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Jap... You're Next! We'll Finish the Job! (U.S. Army, James Montgomery Flagg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/jap-youre-next-flagg-army-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/jap-youre-next-flagg-army-1944.jpg)

# Jap... You're Next! We'll Finish the Job! (U.S. Army, James Montgomery Flagg)

An elderly, white-haired Uncle Sam in a star-spangled vest and striped trousers rolls up his sleeve and holds a large wrench, under the headline 'Jap... You're next!' and the line 'We'll finish the Job!'. The national personification is borrowed to give the worker's task the standing of the country itself, and the slur names the target.

## Text on the object

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

```
JAP... You're Next!
We'll Finish the Job!
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER
I.S.D. No. 198 PC-X-9-RPB-9-6-44-40M
[signature] James Montgomery Flagg
```

Signature reads 'James Montgomery Flagg' at lower right of the figure.

[← Wall inscription '1 keresztényér\[t\]! 100 zsidó' (1 Christian \[for\] 100 Jews), Hungary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungary-1-keresztenyer-100-zsido-graffiti-1944/) ['Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-hey-you-diggers-australia-1944/)

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