Content note: Bandaged soldier holding a captured, bullet-torn Japanese flag. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"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.
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (official poster; artist signed Ronald McLeod)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Plain folks
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (POS - WWII - US .J71 1943), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work: U.S. Army official poster)
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (digital id cph.3g02748). Library of Congress rights statement: 'No known restrictions on publication.'
Text on the object
"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.
