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title: Are you a girl with a Star-Spangled heart? Join the WAC now!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/girl-with-star-spangled-heart-wac-1943/
description: 'WAC recruiting poster: a uniformed woman in front of a large U.S. flag, with the headline ''Are you a girl with a Star-Spangled heart?'' and ''Join the WAC'
section: Collection
---

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[![Are you a girl with a Star-Spangled heart? Join the WAC now!, 1943 US poster: WAC recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/girl-with-star-spangled-heart-wac-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/girl-with-star-spangled-heart-wac-1943.jpg)

# Are you a girl with a Star-Spangled heart? Join the WAC now!

WAC recruiting poster: a uniformed woman in front of a large U.S. flag, with the headline 'Are you a girl with a Star-Spangled heart?' and 'Join the WAC now!' The flag is placed behind the recruit to carry patriotic feeling onto enlistment (transfer), and 'star-spangled heart' is a virtue phrase (glittering generality).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Are you a girl with a
Star-Spangled heart ?
JOIN THE WAC NOW !
THOUSANDS OF ARMY
JOBS NEED FILLING !
Women's Army Corps
United States Army
[signature: Bradshaw Crandell]
[imprint: P-X-9-RPS-11-1-43-[illegible]]
```

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