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title: Construction Workers! Now You Can Volunteer for Service in the Army or Navy
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/construction-workers-now-you-can-volunteer-1943/
description: 'Recruiting poster addressed to construction workers: a charcoal-style portrait of a working man in a cap beside the stencil headline ''Construction Workers!'
section: Collection
---

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[![Construction Workers! Now You Can Volunteer for Service in the Army or Navy, 1943 US poster: Recruiting poster addressed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/construction-workers-now-you-can-volunteer-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/construction-workers-now-you-can-volunteer-1943.jpg)

# Construction Workers! Now You Can Volunteer for Service in the Army or Navy

Recruiting poster addressed to construction workers: a charcoal-style portrait of a working man in a cap beside the stencil headline 'Construction Workers! Now You can volunteer for service in the Army or Navy', with age boxes for voluntary induction and enlistment and the Seabees and Army Engineers badges. It appeals to a trade identity ('use your trade skill to fight'), a plain-folks approach with a direct call to apply.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CONSTRUCTION
WORKERS!
Now
YOU CAN VOLUNTEER
FOR SERVICE IN THE
ARMY OR NAVY
BY VOLUNTARY INDUCTION
MEN
18 TO 38
(For Army or Navy)
BY VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT
MEN OF 17 AND
38 TO 50
(Men of 17 for Navy Only)
USE YOUR TRADE SKILL TO
FIGHT WITH THE
NAVY SEABEES
ARMY ENGINEERS
APPLY AT ANY ARMY OR NAVY RECRUITING STATION
[signature:] DAN V. SMITH
[imprint:] P-59-RPB-1-30-43-HM
[badge text:] SEABEES
```

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