For your country's sake today, for your own sake tomorrow
Recruiting poster for women: four uniformed women in profile, in Army, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard dress, looking in one direction against a dark blue field. The text pairs 'your country's sake' with 'your own sake' and sends viewers to a recruiting station. The tell is the shared uniform and gaze linking service to country and personal benefit.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. armed services recruiting (issuer not named; artist Steele Savage)
- 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. armed services. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-820 (NAID 514315).
Text on the object
For your country's sake today- For your own sake tomorrow GO TO THE NEAREST RECRUITING STATION OF THE ARMED SERVICE OF YOUR CHOICE [signature: Steele Savage] [imprint: P-75-RPB-4-25-44-50M (partly legible)]
