---
title: '''The Jap will get you first if you neglect to protect driving bands of shells'' (LHQ ammunition-care poster no. 6)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-jap-will-get-you-first-driving-bands-australia-1943/
description: A red-drawn Japanese soldier with a rifle crouches inside the white circle of a gun bore, beneath the line 'The Jap will get you first'.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Ethnic slur ('Jap') in the slogan; a Japanese soldier aims a rifle at the viewer. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!['The Jap will get you first if you neglect to protect driving bands of shells' (LHQ ammunition-care poster no. 6)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-jap-will-get-you-first-driving-bands-australia-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-jap-will-get-you-first-driving-bands-australia-1943.jpg)

# 'The Jap will get you first if you neglect to protect driving bands of shells' (LHQ ammunition-care poster no. 6)

A red-drawn Japanese soldier with a rifle crouches inside the white circle of a gun bore, beneath the line 'The Jap will get you first'. Below, three small diagrams give shell-handling rules. The enemy's threat is placed at the muzzle so that damaged driving bands read as danger to the gunner.

## Text on the object

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

```
THE JAP WILL GET
YOU
First
IF YOU NEGLECT
TO PROTECT
DRIVING BANDS
OF SHELLS...
Result
◆ DAMAGE TO GUN BORES
◆ INACCURATE SHOOTING
LIFT SHELLS AND KEEP
GRUMMETS IN POSITION
DON'T REMOVE SHELLS
UNTIL READY FOR USE
CORRECT STACKING
PROTECTS DRIVING BANDS
ELIMINATE UNNECESSARY REPAIRS & TRANSPORT
No. 6 of a series of posters produced by L.H.Q. designed to stress the vital necessity for the care and preservation of ammunition during storage, handling and transport.
[illegible] / Reproduced by L.H.Q. Cartographic Coy., Aust. Survey Corps.
```

The fine print at the foot is very small; the series number ('6') and a reference line at lower left are uncertain or illegible. The caption bar 'AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL' and the accession number are the museum's.

[← The Jap Way: Cold-Blooded Murder. We'll Make Them Pay If You Keep Up Production](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-jap-way-cold-blooded-murder-1943/) [This Is the Enemy →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-is-the-enemy-1943/)

## Using the same techniques

- [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers.
- [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal)
- [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)
- [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal)
- [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)
- [豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891/) (Qing China · 1891 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity.
- [The Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radical-programme-selling-india-st-stephens-review-1891/) (United Kingdom · Oct 31, 1891 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating)
- [En posesión de su presa (In Possession of Its Prey)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/en-posesion-de-su-presa-el-diablo-1894/) (Venezuela · Jun 2, 1894 · Fear appeal)