Content note: Quotation uses the wartime derogatory term 'Japs' for the Japanese enemy, printed as on the poster. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Produce for Victory!
Colour photographic poster from a commercial publisher: three uniformed Chinese soldiers in caps, one in close-up, above a quotation in their voice about five years of fighting 'with our bare hands' and asking for American planes, tanks and guns. The slogan 'Produce for Victory!' closes the sheet. The quotation speaks for the soldiers (testimonial) and uses the wartime derogatory term 'Japs' for the enemy (name-calling).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- The Sheldon-Claire Co., Chicago (photograph courtesy British Press Service)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance, 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)
The Sheldon-Claire Co.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-140 (NAID 513588).
Text on the object
[credit line:] COURTESY BRITISH PRESS SERVICE "For more than five years, we, the Chinese, have been fighting with our bare hands. Now, with your planes, tanks and guns ... together, we'll give the Japs everything they have coming!" PRODUCE FOR VICTORY! [imprint:] Copyright 1942 - The Sheldon-Claire Co., 520 North Michigan Ave., Chicago [imprint:] Lithographed in U.S.A. Form No. 29
