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title: Have you got what it takes to fill an important job like this? Enlist in the WAVES
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/have-you-got-what-it-takes-waves-1944/
description: 'Navy recruiting poster for the WAVES: a woman in Navy uniform reaches up into a large parachute canopy, labelled ''Parachute Rigger 2/c''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Have you got what it takes to fill an important job like this? Enlist in the WAVES, 1944 US poster: Navy recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/have-you-got-what-it-takes-waves-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/have-you-got-what-it-takes-waves-1944.jpg)

# Have you got what it takes to fill an important job like this? Enlist in the WAVES

Navy recruiting poster for the WAVES: a woman in Navy uniform reaches up into a large parachute canopy, labelled 'Parachute Rigger 2/c'. The red question 'Have you got what it takes to fill an important job like this?' challenges the reader, and the base panel says 'Enlist in the WAVES'. The appeal rests on the words 'important job' and a named rating.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Have you got what it
takes to fill an
important job like this?
PARACHUTE RIGGER 2/c
Enlist in the WAVES
INQUIRE TODAY AT ANY NAVY RECRUITING STATION
OR OFFICE OF NAVAL OFFICER PROCUREMENT
[signature: JOHN FALTER USNR]
[imprint: ORDER NO. 67[?]]
[imprint: NAVPERS-NRB-[illegible]-29 Feb 44-4M]
```

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