Content note: Mosquito drawn with rising-sun wings and a yellow-faced, buck-toothed, slant-eyed caricature of a Japanese face, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Man-Made Malaria
Navy malaria-control sheet: a cartoon mosquito with rising-sun-pattern wings, a yellow face, buck teeth and slanted eyes sits beside the words '6 mosquitoes in 10 breed in water in unnecessary ruts, abandoned roads, blocked ditches, fox and shell holes.' The transfer is the national flag emblem placed on the insect; the text itself is a drainage instruction for troops.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (sheet marked NAVMED 141-E)
- 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
- Themes
- Health, 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)
U.S. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1327 (NAID 514974).
Text on the object
Man-Made Malaria 6 MOSQUITOES IN 10 BREED IN WATER IN UNNECESSARY RUTS ABANDONED ROADS BLOCKED DITCHES FOX AND SHELL HOLES [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-601810] NAVMED 141-E
