---
title: '''Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!'' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-hey-you-diggers-australia-1944/
description: A colour landscape leaflet headed 'Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!'.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Wartime leaflet text referring to sexual violence and using racial terms for Allied troops. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!['Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japanese-leaflet-hey-you-diggers-australia-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japanese-leaflet-hey-you-diggers-australia-1944.jpg)

# 'Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)

A colour landscape leaflet headed 'Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!'. A uniformed U.S. serviceman kisses a young woman in an apron while Australian soldiers lie dead in the foreground beneath a Union Jack. The tell is the pairing of the dead Australians with the embracing couple and a caption blaming Allied troops of other nations for taking their women: it casts the U.S. soldier, not the enemy, as the Australian's rival.

## Text on the object

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

```
Hey! You diggers!
He came, he saw, he conquered!

[body text, small print at right, mostly illegible at this resolution; opening words read: "Drinking, you Diggers? will never come back alive. The BLACKS and the YANKS are [illegible] your wives, your daughters, your [illegible]" ... remainder [illegible]]
```

Only the two-line headline is fully legible. The paragraph at right was read from a 443 x 306 px image and is largely illegible; the partial reading is tentative.

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