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title: Salvage Scrap to Blast the Jap
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/salvage-scrap-to-blast-the-jap-1941/
description: An eagle marked with the U.S. Army Air Forces star drops a bomb on a snake in a red cap with the rising-sun emblem, coiled over a globe region labelled…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Ethnic slur ('Jap') in the slogan; the Japanese enemy is drawn as a snake being bombed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Salvage Scrap to Blast the Jap](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/salvage-scrap-to-blast-the-jap-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/salvage-scrap-to-blast-the-jap-1941.jpg)

# Salvage Scrap to Blast the Jap

An eagle marked with the U.S. Army Air Forces star drops a bomb on a snake in a red cap with the rising-sun emblem, coiled over a globe region labelled 'Occupied Territory', above the banner 'Salvage scrap to blast the Jap'. The enemy is drawn as a snake and named with the slur, so the label and the animal carry the message.

## Text on the object

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

```
WPA

OCCUPIED
TERRITORY

SALVAGE SCRAP
TO BLAST THE JAP

THIRTEENTH NAVAL DISTRICT  ★  UNITED STATES NAVY

20
```

'WPA' is at upper left in the illustration and the number '20' appears at lower right in the margin. Small marks at lower left of the artwork are not legible.

[← Românii basarabeni, Bucovinenii și minoritarii pașnici (leaflet for Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Romanian and Russian sides)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/romanian-german-leaflet-bessarabia-1941/) [Suomen sotilaat! (Soldiers of Finland!): Soviet leaflet on a springboard against the USSR and the fate of Denmark and Norway →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-hitler-ponnahduslauta-1941/)

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