Leather propaganda patch "Remember Pearl Harbor"...

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Leather propaganda patch "Remember Pearl Harbor" [World War II - Pearl Harbor]. Leather propaganda patch measuring 6.25 in. (159 mm.) diameter with a painted depiction of a stereotypical negative caricature of a Japanese soldier with swastikas on the collar. Rifle crosshairs are centered at his forehead with "Remember Pearl Harbor / Keep 'Em Dying" painted in yellow along the perimeter. Exhibits paint flaking on the letters with a pinhole at top-center. "Remember Pearl Harbor - Keep 'Em Dying" The smoke had scarcely cleared from Pearl Harbor's Battleship Row when America, suddenly at war, dusted herself off and rallied her people with a spirited battle cry: "Remember Pearl Harbor!" This watchword of victory-RPH for short-instantly showed up everywhere: on posters, pins, medals, patches, and every kind of item imaginable. Over four long years of war, RPH items reminded a beleaguered America why it was fighting. Today, this piece of propaganda reminds us of a time when an entire nation mobilized for a single purpose.