Content note: Photograph of a burned, wrecked street with two dead horses in the foreground. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Manila - Bataan scorched
Photographic poster of a smoking, wrecked street with collapsed roofing and two dead horses in the foreground, under red lettering reading MANILA - BATAAN SCORCHED and the quoted line 'it ALL depends on ME'. The tell is fear-appeal: a scene of war damage is paired with a personal-duty line addressed to the viewer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- International News Service photograph, published by Illinois Photo-Gravure Co. (Chicago); no issuing agency printed
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, 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)
International News Service photograph, published by Illinois Photo-Gravure Co.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1331 (NAID 514978).
Text on the object
Manila - Bataan Scorched "it ALL depends on ME" [imprint: (c) Illinois Photo - Gravure Co. International News Service CHICAGO, ILLINOIS]
