Content note: Grinning caricature of Tojo with swastika armband and Iron Cross. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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.
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, hand-lettered by Pvt. Norman Dankowitz, QMATC, Camp Lee, Virginia (as signed)
- 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-callingTransfer
- 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 (NARA 515530, local id 44-PA-1851), Records of the Office of Government Reports, Record Group 44, series 'World War II Posters', retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. publication without copyright notice; NARA 'Unrestricted')
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Text on the object
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.
