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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Air Forces
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- 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 Air Forces. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-62 (NAID 513529).
Text on the object
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.
