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

"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 Fear appeal Identity fusion

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
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, Cartoon Artworks and Mockups (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-132 (NAID 535645).

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