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
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.
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (poster J-528652; cartoon signed Rollin Kirby; printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Northwestern University Libraries, World War II Poster Collection (object no. IIID.35), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government publication; Northwestern: No Copyright - United States)
Northwestern University Libraries, World War II Poster Collection (Government & Geographic Information Collection); the Libraries ask that users cite the item URL and Northwestern University Libraries.
Text on the object
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.
