Iowahawk on Propaganda

He is mocking the current propaganda, but his early example is striking.

This one is the one I always think of. It's weaker than his example, though: it stops at the horror, and misses the quality of the angelic that follows.

5 comments:

raven said...

From the master of portraying American domestic life, Norman Rockwell, his only combat painting. 1942, a illustration perhaps based on the terrible fighting on Guadalcanal.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8_ENa7sVpug/SW8GuWZ5zPI/AAAAAAAADPk/GJcC--VDH2I/s400/rockwell_ontime.jpg

Grim said...

Hooah.

raven said...

I had the privilege of meeting an old China Marine, who served on Guadalcanal. He was a man with stories to tell!
The painting may be inspired by John Basilone or Mitchell Paige, not sure of the dates.

Eric Blair said...

I rather think that the poster you referred to Grim, was one that was produced later in the war, after the casualties had started to add up. I have seen other late war propaganda that was as pointed about doing more to get the war over with.

Richard Frank's book, "Downfall: the End of the Imperial Japanese Empire" (covering the last months of the war) has a useful and eye opening discussion of the war-weariness in the US by 1945.

Grim said...

Good to know. The Iowahawk example gives its date as 1943; I don't know how late the other one is, but it would explain a lot if it was later in the war.