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title: Shall we let him get away with it? Let's go, everybody, keep 'em firing!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shall-we-let-him-get-away-with-it-oldsmobile-1942/
description: Colour poster of a giant, furious Uncle Sam face being slapped by a small Japanese officer drawn with glasses, buck teeth and a yellow-brown face.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Racial caricature of a Japanese officer (glasses, buck teeth, yellow-brown skin) striking Uncle Sam. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Shall we let him get away with it? Let's go, everybody, keep 'em firing!, 1942 US poster: Colour poster of a giant, furious](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/shall-we-let-him-get-away-with-it-oldsmobile-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/shall-we-let-him-get-away-with-it-oldsmobile-1942.jpg)

# Shall we let him get away with it? Let's go, everybody, keep 'em firing!

Colour poster of a giant, furious Uncle Sam face being slapped by a small Japanese officer drawn with glasses, buck teeth and a yellow-brown face; red stars carry the names Philippines, Pearl Harbor and Wake. A roundel shows a fighter plane and a tank firing. The tells are the racial caricature of the enemy (name-calling) and the national symbol standing for the injured country (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SHALL WE LET HIM
GET AWAY WITH IT?
PHILIPPINES
PEARL
HARBOR
WAKE
LET'S GO, EVERYBODY—
KEEP 'EM FIRING!
COPYRIGHT, 1942—OLDSMOBILE DIVISION, GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, LANSING, MICHIGAN
LITHO IN U.S.A.  -11-
```

[← Sewing electrically heated flying suits with a smile, so that our boys can make it hot for the Axis. This is our war!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sewing-electrically-heated-flying-suits-this-is-our-war-1942/) [She's a swell plane - give us more! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shes-a-swell-plane-more-production-1942/)

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