Content note: Caricatured Japanese boxer with exaggerated teeth and glasses being punched. This object is shown as it was published. Why

Keep Punching ... in the Battle of Production: Beat Your Promise

A boxing cartoon in which a muscular 'You & I' fighter with gloves lettered 'All-Out Production' and 'No Waste' lands a punch on a caricatured Japanese boxer with bristling hair, round glasses and buck teeth, whose sword is labelled 'Remember Pearl Harbor'. A national enemy is reduced to a stock facial type to make the production slogan a prize fight.

Date: 1943
Period: Second World War
Made by: RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc. ('Beat Your Promise' production series), drawn by an artist signing 'Alexander'
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Corporation
Regime: Roosevelt Administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Home front, Labor, Race and ethnicity
Event: World War II
Techniques: Name-calling
Regime: Roosevelt administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: UNT Digital Library, University of North Texas Libraries (World War II Posters collection), ark:/67531/metadc149, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published without copyright notice; checked on scan)
UNT Libraries, UNT Digital Library, World War II Posters (metadc149). Rights basis: no copyright notice on scan; marks: 'Litho. in U.S.A.' and a form number.

Text on the object

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

KEEP PUNCHING... IN THE BATTLE OF PRODUCTION

WHAM!

ALL-OUT PRODUCTION

NO WASTE

YOU & I

REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR

Beat Your Promise!

ALEXANDER

LITHO. IN U.S.A.
FORM 155266RE

Form number at lower right read as '155266RE' (uncertain). A handwritten number ('2232') appears at the foot centre.