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title: 'The Avenger''s Shadow: More Metal for U.S. Planes, Tanks, Guns'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-avengers-shadow-more-metal-1944/
description: A pen cartoon shows a Japanese soldier with a pistol crouching over the body of a U.S. pilot, while the huge shadow of a helmeted figure (catalogued as…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Drawn scene of a Japanese soldier with a pistol over the body of a dead American pilot. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![The Avenger's Shadow: More Metal for U.S. Planes, Tanks, Guns](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-avengers-shadow-more-metal-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-avengers-shadow-more-metal-1944.jpg)

# The Avenger's Shadow: More Metal for U.S. Planes, Tanks, Guns

A pen cartoon shows a Japanese soldier with a pistol crouching over the body of a U.S. pilot, while the huge shadow of a helmeted figure (catalogued as an American miner) falls across the scene carrying the words 'More metal for U.S. planes, tanks, guns.' The atrocity scene is drawn, not documented, and is attached to a metal-salvage appeal, so the enemy's stigma does the asking.

## Text on the object

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

```
THE AVENGER'S SHADOW

MORE
METAL
FOR
U.S.
PLANES
TANKS
GUNS

U.S. PILOT

U.S. ARMY

J-528652

[signature: Rollin Kirby]
```

'J-528652' is printed vertically at the right. The oval stamp (Northwestern University Library, SEP 25 1944) and the pencil note at the top ('U.S. War dept. Adjutant general dept.') are library annotations, not printed text.

[← What Are You Going to Do About It? Stay on the Job Until Every Murdering Jap Is Wiped Out!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stay-on-the-job-murdering-jap-1944/) [Air-raid notice: 'This city is the next target' (US leaflet to Japanese civilians) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/warning-next-target-japan-leaflet-1944/)

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