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title: 'Murder in Cold Blood: Let''s Force the Japs to Pay (TCOP Poster Studio)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/murder-in-cold-blood-tcop-1942/
description: Three soldiers in Japanese-style caps and puttees, drawn with yellow-green faces and squinting eyes, aim rifles straight at the viewer in front of a…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Racial caricature of Japanese soldiers with yellow-green faces aiming rifles at the viewer; ethnic slur ('Japs') in the text. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Murder in Cold Blood: Let's Force the Japs to Pay (TCOP Poster Studio)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/murder-in-cold-blood-tcop-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/murder-in-cold-blood-tcop-1942.jpg)

# Murder in Cold Blood: Let's Force the Japs to Pay (TCOP Poster Studio)

Three soldiers in Japanese-style caps and puttees, drawn with yellow-green faces and squinting eyes, aim rifles straight at the viewer in front of a wrecked aircraft carrying a white star under the headline 'Murder in cold blood.' The base line reads 'Let's force the Japs to pay. Make every bullet grade A.' The guns are pointed at the audience, and the remedy offered is better ammunition production.

## Text on the object

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

```
MURDER
IN COLD BLOOD

LET'S FORCE THE JAPS TO PAY.
MAKE EVERY BULLET GRADE 'A'

TCOP POSTER STUDIO
```

Capitalisation follows the printed lines; 'EVERY' is underlined on the poster.

[← More Production (Snowball over the Axis Leaders)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/more-production-snowball-axis-leaders-1942/) [Ouch! The Japs Don't Like Mosquitoes →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ouch-the-japs-dont-like-mosquitoes-1942/)

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