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title: '"Remember Pearl Harbor - Work - Fight - Sacrifice!!" / "We''ll remember - and by God, you won''t forget!!"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-remember-pearl-harbor-work-fight-sacrifice-1943/
description: A giant arm in a star-spangled sleeve labelled '130,000,000 United Americans' reaches down toward a grotesquely drawn Japanese soldier who crouches over
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** A pencil cartoon of a caricatured Japanese soldier crouching over a prone female figure labelled Pearl Harbor with a dagger in her back, as a giant star-spangled arm labelled 130,000,000 United Americans reaches down toward him, as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Remember Pearl Harbor - Work - Fight - Sacrifice!!" / "We'll remember - and by God, you won't forget!!", 1943 US cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-alston-remember-pearl-harbor-work-fight-sacrifice-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-alston-remember-pearl-harbor-work-fight-sacrifice-1943.jpg)

# "Remember Pearl Harbor - Work - Fight - Sacrifice!!" / "We'll remember - and by God, you won't forget!!"

A giant arm in a star-spangled sleeve labelled '130,000,000 United Americans' reaches down toward a grotesquely drawn Japanese soldier who crouches over a prone female figure labelled 'Pearl Harbor', with a dagger in her back. The tell is name-calling and dehumanizing caricature of the enemy, paired with identity fusion in the unified '130,000,000 United Americans' and a fear/revenge appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR.....WORK ~ FIGHT ~ SACRIFICE !!

130,000,000 UNITED AMERICANS

PEARL HARBOR

"WE'LL REMEMBER — AND BY GOD, YOU WONT FORGET!!"

Alston
```

[← "A real home is worth a real fight!"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-real-home-worth-real-fight-1943/) ["Right between the eyes!!" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-right-between-the-eyes-1943/)

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