Content note: Atrocity scene of a Japanese soldier striking a kneeling American captive; slogan calls for every 'murdering Jap' to be 'wiped out'. This object is shown as it was published. Why
What Are You Going to Do About It? Stay on the Job Until Every Murdering Jap Is Wiped Out!
A Japanese soldier with a snarling face drives a rifle butt into a kneeling American while a column of captives is marched behind him; a torn newspaper clipping on the Philippines 'March of Death' sits over the scene. The slogan ties the factory worker's job to wiping out 'every murdering Jap', so the slur and the atrocity headline, not any further argument, carry the call to keep producing.
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (official poster, I.S.D. no. 148)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-callingFear appeal
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (POS - WWII - US .J71 1944), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work: U.S. Army official poster)
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Miscellaneous Items in High Demand (LC-USZC4 reproduction series; digital id cph.3g01656). Library of Congress rights statement: 'No known restrictions on publication.'
Text on the object
What are YOU going to do about it? 5200 Yank Prisoners Killed by Jap Torture In Philippines; Cruel 'March of Death' Described Other Thousands of Victims Were Filipinos; Captives Were Starved, Beaten, Bayoneted, Shot and Even Beheaded, Army and Navy Report STAY ON THE JOB UNTIL EVERY MURDERING JAP IS WIPED OUT! U.S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER I.S.D. No. 148
Transcribed from the 1024 px scan. The clipping also carries fragments of neighbouring newspaper headlines at its lower edge ('Soviets Near', 'Heavy Action Rises in Fury Crack Unit', 'RAF Hurls New Blows at Europe') and a line of body text that is cut off and not legible; the Government Printing Office imprint at the foot is too small to read.
