Content note: Hosted as printed: the slogan uses an ethnic slur for Japanese people, and the central figure is a racial and national caricature wearing a swastika armband. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Save your scraps to bomb the Japs
A bomber drops bombs, built as scrap-metal shapes, onto an upside-down caricature of a horned, winged, tailed figure in a military cap, round glasses and buck teeth, with a swastika armband, medals and an Iron Cross. Slogan: 'SAVE YOUR SCRAPS TO BOMB THE JAPS'. Name-calling by slur and caricature; scrap is linked to bombs by transfer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- J. P. Seeburg Corp., Chicago (artist Hamill)
- 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, War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- 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)
J. P. Seeburg Corp., Chicago (artist Hamill). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1681 (NAID 515349).
Text on the object
SAVE YOUR SCRAPS TO BOMB THE JAPS [signature: HAMILL] [imprint: © 1942, J.P. SEEBURG CORP., CHICAGO]
