Content note: A boxing-ring cartoon in which Axis opponents are drawn as caricatured figures, one wearing a swastika and one a rising-sun cap, as published by the OWI. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"Let him have that right, and we can take him this round!!"
Uncle Sam coaches a boxer labelled 'Kid Home Front' whose glove reads 'Fourth War Loan', while in the ring behind, a fighter marked 'Round 44' is shown pummelling a swastika-wearing opponent as a referee in a rising-sun cap looks on. The tell is the personified, caricatured enemy figures, used to cast war bond buying as a blow in a fight.
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, Home front, 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 (NARA), RG 208, Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-178 (NAID 535663).
Text on the object
KID HOME FRONT FOURTH WAR LOAN ROUND '44 alston "LET HIM HAVE THAT RIGHT AND WE CAN TAKE HIM THIS ROUND!!" (Caption is partly cropped at the sheet's lower edge.)
