This American airman drives the Jap from China's skies--Give him your help! – Antique Print
![This American airman drives the Jap from China's skies--Give him your help!, [1945] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/32/3252c7938241-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This American airman drives the Jap from China's skies--Give him your help! comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This American airman drives the Jap from China's skies--Give him your help!
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A fighter pilot standing against the sky is the central figure here, and the poster's title tells viewers that he is driving Japanese aircraft from China's skies and asks for their help. The text was translated from Chinese, which suggests the poster was aimed at a Chinese audience rather than at Americans at home. By 1945, American pilots of the U.S. Army Air Forces' 14th Air Force, and earlier the volunteer Flying Tigers, had been fighting Japanese forces over China, so the image reflects a real wartime effort. Posters like this were part of a broader effort to build public support for the Allied fight in China.
| Created / published | [1945] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | War posters American 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from item. Title translated from Chinese. Promotional goal: U.S. J46.China. 1945. |
| Subjects | Fighter pilots--American--China--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--China. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 850 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176195 |
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