Content note: Caricatured Japanese soldier with exaggerated teeth fleeing a falling shell. This object is shown as it was published. Why

Materials Are Precious! Let's Make Every Piece Count!

A grinning worker labelled 'You & I' beside a factory watches a shell fall toward a caricatured Japanese soldier with round glasses, bristling hair and exposed teeth who is running across a Pacific island chain, while a vulture asks 'D'ya remember Pearl Harbor, kid?!'. A saved-materials slogan is turned into a gag at the enemy's expense.

Date: 1943
Period: Second World War
Made by: Unattributed wartime plant-morale poster (UNT gives no publisher), drawn by an artist signing 'Alexander'
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: 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/metadc150, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published without copyright notice; checked on scan)
UNT Libraries, UNT Digital Library, World War II Posters (metadc150). 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

MATERIALS ARE PRECIOUS!-- LET'S MAKE EVERY PIECE COUNT!

BOY, OH BOY!... THAT COULD BE SOME OF THE MATERIAL I'VE SAVED ON MY JOB!!

YOU & I

D'YA REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR, KID?!

ALEXANDER

LITHO. IN U.S.A.
FORM 155270RE

Form number at lower right read as '155270RE' (uncertain). A handwritten number ('2234') appears at the foot.