Calling WAAC...
Army recruiting poster for women: a uniformed woman in radio headphones sits at a teletype in front of a yellow 'Radiogram' addressed to all qualified women, while a soldier at the top telephones from the field. The tells are glittering generalities ('total war, total effort') and transfer: the front-line soldier's call is presented as a call to the viewer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, United States Army
- 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)
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, United States Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-537 (NAID 514016).
Text on the object
"Calling WAAC..." RADIOGRAM TO ALL QUALIFIED WOMEN- EVERYWHERE, ALL STATES, USA- MEET TOTAL WAR WITH YOUR TOTAL EFFORT...JOIN THE WAAC RADIOGRAM [signature: ALBRO F. DOWNE / MICHAEL RAMUS] WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS * UNITED STATES ARMY APPLY AT ANY U. S. ARMY RECRUITING AND INDUCTION STATION [imprint: [illegible]]
