What Do You Say, America?
Artist
Designer Unknown
Date1942
MediumOffset Lithograph
Dimensions20 x 14 1/4 in. (50.8 x 36.2 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.5678
DescriptionThis poster was issued in 1942 by the Office of War Information (OWI), set up by the U.S. government that year to shape and communicate its various wartime propaganda objectives. The black-and-white photograph of the head of Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, set against an eye-catching red ground with a provocative quote from him below it, was from a series of three in similar style, each with the same tagline: “What do You say, America?” The other two feature leaders of the Axis powers Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Yamamoto was reviled in America since he had overseen the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 that had brought the United States into the war. He was killed in April 1943 when his aircraft was shot down by the United States Army Air Forces.On View
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Giulio Cittato
c. 1968
