Gunners wear wings... Are you seventeen?
A young man in civilian dress looks upward toward a winged gunner's badge in a blue sky, under the headline 'Are you seventeen?'. The tell is the aspirational upward gaze and the badge as a prize, with hedged wording below: 'There may be a future place for you in the air combat crew'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Air Forces (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
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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 Air Forces (artist Steele Savage). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-924 (NAID 514430).
Text on the object
GUNNERS WEAR WINGS... Are you Seventeen? THERE MAY BE A FUTURE PLACE FOR YOU IN THE AIR COMBAT CREW LEARN IF YOU ARE QUALIFIED FOR THE AIR CORPS ENLISTED RESERVE Apply at any AAF EXAMINING BOARD [signature:] Steele Savage [imprint:] P-131-RPB-9-6-44-10M
