Don't miss your great opportunity: The Navy needs you in the WAVES
Painting of two women in white Navy uniforms walking in step along a waterfront with a warship and city skyline behind them, with a red panel reading 'Don't miss your great opportunity..' and the line 'The Navy needs you in the WAVES'. The tell for glittering-generalities is the unspecified 'great opportunity', which names no duty, pay or term of service.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy (Women's Reserve, WAVES); artist John Falter, USNR
- 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, Home front
- 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. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-207 (NAID 513650).
Text on the object
Don't miss your great opportunity.. THE NAVY NEEDS YOU IN THE WAVES [signature:] JOHN FALTER USNR [imprint:] ORDER NO. 79 NAVPERS-NRB-[illegible]-[illegible]-44-[illegible]M
