All He Needed Was a Little More Gas!!
A US Navy-marked aircraft is shown nose-down, breaking up as it hits the sea, while a second aircraft flies away in the distance, under the caption 'All he needed was a little more gas!!'. The tell is fear appeal: a staged loss of a pilot is tied to civilian fuel use, with conservation as the single prescribed remedy.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Alston)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- 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, Record Group 208, OWI Cartoon Artworks (NAID 535594), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-128 (NAID 535641).
Text on the object
ALL HE NEEDED WAS A LITTLE MORE GAS!!" Alston OWI
