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title: Thank You So Much, American Soldier, for Wasting Food (Help Tojo Win War)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/thank-you-for-wasting-food-help-tojo-1943/
description: A grinning, bespectacled caricature in a brown uniform bows with an open hand and a pistol in the other, in a speech bubble thanking the American soldier…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Grinning caricature of Tojo with swastika armband and Iron Cross. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Thank You So Much, American Soldier, for Wasting Food (Help Tojo Win War)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/thank-you-for-wasting-food-help-tojo-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/thank-you-for-wasting-food-help-tojo-1943.jpg)

# Thank You So Much, American Soldier, for Wasting Food (Help Tojo Win War)

A grinning, bespectacled caricature in a brown uniform bows with an open hand and a pistol in the other, in a speech bubble thanking the American soldier for wasting food. His cap carries a rising-sun disc and he also wears a swastika armband and an Iron Cross, so Japanese and German symbols are pinned on the one figure.

## Text on the object

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

```
THANK YOU SO MUCH, AMERICAN SOLDIER
FOR WASTING FOOD
HELP TOJO WIN WAR

FCP-2
PVT. Norman Dankowitz
QMATC CAMP LEE, VA.
```

Signature block at lower right and 'FCP-2' at lower left are hand-lettered in small type.

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