Content note: Ethnic slur in headline; grimacing caricature of Tojo with exaggerated teeth struck by a fist. This object is shown as it was published. Why

Japs Execute Doolittle Men. We'll Pay You Back Tojo

A torn newspaper headline, 'Japs Execute Doolittle Men', sits above a grimacing, bespectacled caricature of Tojo with large teeth, struck by a fist in a star-spangled sleeve. The slogan 'We'll pay you back Tojo through the Pay Roll Savings Plan if it takes our last dime' converts a news event into a payment prompt; the slur and the caricature do the labelling.

Date: 1943
Period: Second World War
Made by: Poster for the Pay Roll Savings Plan (issuer not named on the object); held in the OWI poster file
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Mixed
Regime: Roosevelt Administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Fundraise
Themes: War and the military, Economy and finance, Race and ethnicity
Event: World War II
Techniques: Name-calling Outrage bait
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 (NARA 513574, local id 44-PA-126), Records of the Office of Government Reports, Record Group 44, series 'World War II Posters', retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (U.S. publication without copyright notice; NARA 'Unrestricted')
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Text on the object

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

JAPS EXECUTE
DOOLITTLE MEN
Wreck of Doolittle's Plane in China
Some Fliers S[cropped]

WE'LL PAY YOU BACK
TOJO
Through the Pay Roll Savings Plan
if it takes our last dime!

Artist's initials at lower left of the drawing ([illegible]). The headline is a pasted-in clipping that is cut off at 'Some Fliers S'.