What Do You Say, America? (Admiral Yamamoto quotation)
A bare photographic portrait of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on a red field, under a quotation attributed to him: 'I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House at Washington', and the question 'What do YOU say, AMERICA?'. The poster supplies one quotation with no date, place or source and offers the viewer only the defiant reply.
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Office of War Information, Graphics Division
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Fear appealCard stacking
- 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 (NARA 513823, local id 44-PA-371B), Records of the Office of Government Reports, Record Group 44, series 'World War II Posters', retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. Government work; NARA use restriction 'Unrestricted')
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Text on the object
"I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House at Washington" — ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO What do YOU say, AMERICA? Issued by the Graphics Division, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. OWI-P-4
GPO imprint at lower right ('1942-O-472170') is in small type.
