Content note: Japanese soldier drawn as a racial caricature (snarling mouth, exaggerated features), shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Stop him and the job's done
Army poster: a close-up of an enemy soldier in a star-badged cap sighting down a rifle at the viewer, face snarling and unshaven, under 'Stop him' with 'and the job's done' below. The soldier is drawn with a grimace and exaggerated features, a name-calling and fear-appeal device urging the viewer to support the fight.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (Official Poster)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-112 (NAID 513560).
Text on the object
STOP HIM AND THE JOB'S DONE U.S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER [imprint: ISD No. 199] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 - O - 614567] [signature: illegible]
