Attention, Women! Join the WAAC
Recruiting poster: a uniformed woman in a trench coat and gloves, a WAAC patch and sergeant's stripes on her sleeve, looks off to one side as if addressing a crowd, beneath the call 'Attention, Women!' and 'Join the WAAC'. The photograph of a real-looking recruit gives the audience a person to identify with; the sheet names where to apply.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-433 (NAID 513892).
Text on the object
Attention, Women! JOIN THE WAAC WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS ★ U. S. ARMY APPLY AT ANY U. S. ARMY RECRUITING AND INDUCTION STATION [imprint:] P-32-RPB-3-5-43-20M [illegible: small Recruiting Publicity Bureau mark] WAAC (sleeve patch)
