Be a Marine: Free a Marine to Fight (vertical sheet)
Vertical recruiting poster: a painted woman in a green Marine uniform with sergeant's chevrons holds a clipboard and looks up beside an aircraft engine and propeller, under 'Be a Marine' with 'Free a Marine to fight' below. The slogan offers a role that substitutes for a man's; the clipboard and aircraft suggest ground support work without stating it.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve, distributed by OWI; printed by McCandlish Litho Corporation, Philadelphia
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Gender and suffrage
- 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. Marine Corps Women's Reserve, distributed by OWI; printed by McCandlish Litho Corporation, Philadelphia. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-236B (NAID 513679).
Text on the object
BE A MARINE FREE A MARINE TO FIGHT [imprint:] Cont. NOm-42757 335000 [imprint:] DISTRIBUTED BY OWI FOR THE U.S. MARINE CORPS [imprint:] McCANDLISH LITHO CORPORATION, PHILA. PA.
