"Good hunting, son, - you're on your own now!!!"
A large eagle labelled 'The U.S.A.' perches on a rock watching a smaller bird, tagged 'First Negro fighter plane squadron', fly toward the burning island of Pantelleria. The tell is a weak fit for glittering-generalities: the national eagle emblem and a parent-to-child farewell frame the first Black fighter squadron's combat debut as a national achievement.
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
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- 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 (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-182 (NAID 535667).
Text on the object
THE U.S.A. FIRST NEGRO FIGHTER PLANE SQUADRON PANTELLERIA "GOOD HUNTING, SON, - YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN NOW!!!" [signed] Alston OWI
