Good soldier
Women's Army Corps recruiting poster: a smiling woman in a khaki garrison cap and uniform with a 'U.S.' collar disc, under the headline 'Good soldier'. The poster uses the approving label and a smiling uniformed portrait to make enlistment look attractive and respectable (glittering generalities, transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Women's Army Corps (Recruiting Publicity Bureau)
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-254 (NAID 513696).
Text on the object
Good soldier THE WAC WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS Apply at U.S. Army Recruiting Station or ask your local Postmaster [imprint: PX-33-RPB-6-22-44-50M]
