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title: '"We''ll Lick ''Em - Just Give Us the Stuff!"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/well-lick-em-give-us-the-stuff-1943/
description: A smiling, bandaged GI in jungle kit holds a bullet-torn Japanese rising-sun flag and a bayoneted rifle under the quoted line 'We'll lick 'em - just give…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Bandaged soldier holding a captured, bullet-torn Japanese flag. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["We'll Lick 'Em - Just Give Us the Stuff!"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/well-lick-em-give-us-the-stuff-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/well-lick-em-give-us-the-stuff-1943.jpg)

# "We'll Lick 'Em - Just Give Us the Stuff!"

A smiling, bandaged GI in jungle kit holds a bullet-torn Japanese rising-sun flag and a bayoneted rifle under the quoted line 'We'll lick 'em - just give us the stuff!'. The poster speaks in the soldier's own voice, so the ask for war production comes from an ordinary man who has already won; the enemy appears only as the captured flag.

## Text on the object

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

```
"We'll lick 'em -
JUST GIVE US THE STUFF!"

U.S. ARMY
OFFICIAL POSTER

RONALD McLEOD

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]
```

'RONALD McLEOD' is the artist's signature at upper right in the illustration. The imprint at the foot is too small to read in this scan.

[← We Can Do It!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-can-do-it-1943/) ['We'll take care of the Japs, mates, if you'll take care of our food' (Australian food-hygiene poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/well-take-care-of-the-japs-mates-australia-1943/)

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