Content note: Cartoon caricatures of Axis figures being set alight, including a stereotyped caricature of a Japanese soldier, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Let's put the heat on the Axis "retreat"! Payroll savings
Black-and-white cartoon: 'Willie Warbond,' a cheerful man in a sweater, stands on a giant matchbox marked 'Payroll Savings' and lights two matches. One sets alight the seat of a leaping Axis figure at left. At right a second caricatured figure in a plumed cap and boots walks off, carrying a sword. The pun on 'retreat' and the everyman figure carry the appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Payroll savings campaign (issuer not printed; artist Amon)
- 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, Home front
- 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)
Payroll savings campaign. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1277 (NAID 514883).
Text on the object
LET'S PUT THE HEAT ON THE AXIS 'RETREAT!' WILLIE WARBOND PAYROLL SAVINGS [signature: AMON]
