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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army and U.S. Navy recruiting (Navy Seabees, Army Engineers); artist Dan V. Smith
- 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, Labor
- 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 and U.S. Navy recruiting. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-604 (NAID 514083).
Text on the object
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
