"Going where we're needed most!" Join the WAC now!
Colour photograph of three smiling women in khaki WAC uniforms leaning from a train window, gloves in hand, under the quoted line 'Going where we're needed most!'. A red panel reads 'Join the WAC now!' and 'Thousands of Army jobs need filling!'. Smiling ordinary women and the claim of being 'needed most' carry the appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Recruiting Publicity Bureau (Women's Army Corps)
- 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. Army, Recruiting Publicity Bureau. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-906 (NAID 514411).
Text on the object
"Going where we're needed most!" JOIN THE WAC NOW ! THOUSANDS OF ARMY JOBS NEED FILLING ! Women's Army Corps United States Army [imprint:] PC-X-1—RPB—11-1-43—8M [imprint:] RECRUITING PUBLICITY BUREAU UNITED STATES ARMY
