Content note: The speech balloon uses the wartime slur 'Jap' for Japanese targets, printed as on the poster. This object is shown as it was published. Why
I'm tired of taking the rap for missing a German or Jap
Equipment-care cartoon for ordnance crews: weeping soldiers cradle bombs while a speech balloon says Joe Dope dents the fins so bombs 'swoop all over the map'. A thought cloud shows a bomber crew watching a miss. The tell is name-calling of the careless handler, delivered as humour. The balloon names German and Japanese targets.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army; artist Will Eisner
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- 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)
Ordnance Department, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1143TT (NAID 514722).
Text on the object
I'm tired of taking the rap For missing a German or Jap- That Dope dents the fins And the blinking bomb spins And swoops all over the map! [signature: WARRANT/OFF. Will Eisner, ORDNANCE]
