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title: Aviation cadet training
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aviation-cadet-training-1943/
description: 'Army Air Forces recruiting poster: three smiling young men in flying helmets and harnesses, photographed from below against an orange ground.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Aviation cadet training, 1943 US poster: Army Air Forces recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/aviation-cadet-training-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/aviation-cadet-training-1943.jpg)

# Aviation cadet training

Army Air Forces recruiting poster: three smiling young men in flying helmets and harnesses, photographed from below against an orange ground, above the headline 'Aviation Cadet Training to become bombardiers, navigators and pilots'. The tell is transfer, glamour and confidence attached to the role; the text states the age rules and where to apply.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
This announcement is made with the approval of the Joint Army and Navy Personnel Board.
AVIATION CADET TRAINING
TO BECOME BOMBARDIERS, NAVIGATORS, and PILOTS
IN THE ARMY AIR FORCES
for men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, inclusive, through voluntary induction.
Young men of seventeen years and less than eighteen years of age may volunteer for
enlistment in the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve for future training as Aviation Cadets.
APPLY AT ANY AVIATION CADET EXAMINING BOARD OR ANY U.S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION
U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES
[imprint: P-62-RPB-5-15-43-50M (uncertain)]
```

The printer's line at lower right is very small; its date is read with moderate confidence.

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