Smash Japanese Aggression!
British bombers attack Japanese flying-boats burning and sinking in a harbour, with a caption that thirteen Japanese flying-boats were smashed in a Royal Air Force raid on Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, and the slogan 'Smash Japanese Aggression!'. The tell for card-stacking is a single reported success with no date, losses or wider context; the slogan applies the label 'aggression' to the enemy as a whole.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Printed in England by Field Sons & Co. Ltd., Bradford; artist Roy Nockolds (no issuing ministry named on the poster)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; UK wartime publication, hosted by owner decision
Artist Roy Nockolds; printed by Field Sons & Co. Ltd., National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-392.
Text on the object
Thirteen Japanese flying-boats were smashed in a heavy Royal Air Force raid on the harbour of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. SMASH JAPANESE AGGRESSION! [imprint:] PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY FIELD SONS & CO. LTD., BRADFORD 51-2907.
