Content note: A cartoon in which a helmeted figure marked with a swastika stands over bodies and a figure labelled Mussolini flees, with an Ethiopian figure in a caricatured style, as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"Get into your fighting clothes - we're going after the others" (undated, c. 1942-1945, OWI)
Undated: NARA gives no date; c. 1942-1945 from the OWI series. Uncle Sam, in a pith helmet beside a tent flagged 'United Nations Head Quarters', points toward a helmeted figure with a swastika standing over bodies, and hands clothing to a figure in a cloak marked 'Ethiopia'; a fleeing figure is labelled 'Mussolini'. The tell is caricature of Axis leaders as menacing or fleeing figures, set against allied unity.
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
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- 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 (NARA), RG 208, Cartoons Promoting the War Effort (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-186 (NAID 535670).
Text on the object
UNITED NATIONS HEAD QUARTERS ETHIOPIA MUSSOLINI "GET INTO YOUR FIGHTING CLOTHES - WE'RE GOING AFTER THE OTHERS" alston
