Italian Propaganda Poster Depicting Japanese Samurai Sinking Allied Ships

This poster was created by Italian fascist artist Gino Boccasile, who created propaganda artwork for Italy and later the Italian Social Republic.

The poster is commonly misunderstood to be either Japanese in origin, or to be commemorating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The ships depicted in the poster are the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, however. Both were sunk by the Japanese navy on December 10, 1941 off the east coast of what is now Malaysia.

Italian Propaganda Poster Depicting Japanese Samurai Sinking of Allied Ships
Italian Propaganda Poster Depicting Japanese Samurai Sinking of Allied Ships

4 thoughts on “Italian Propaganda Poster Depicting Japanese Samurai Sinking Allied Ships”

  1. just a minor mistake i see its not the italian socialist republic its the italian social republic i dont understand why you wrote them that like i found no source that write socialist instead of social so think your not just misunderstanding the name heck if you write italian socialist republic in google you will find the correct name the italian social republic so i think you purposedlly miswrote facist italy name as the italian socialist republic instead of the italian social republic so as to insiniuated that facist italy is a socialist nation witch is not its a far right nation

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