How he feels about the WAC
Women's Army Corps recruiting sheet built from a Yank magazine letters page: a headline 'How he feels about the WAC', a smiling portrait of Pvt. Grace Glocke, and a column of soldiers' letters praising WACs. The technique is testimonial: servicemen's named letters stand in for the sheet's endorsement, and the count of 300 letters to Glocke adds a bandwagon note.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department, Women's Army Corps (reproducing Yank magazine 'Mail Call')
- 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. War Department, Women's Army Corps (reproducing Yank magazine 'Mail Call'). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1010 (NAID 514536).
Text on the object
How he feels about the WAC The Soldier Speaks Pvt. Grace Glocke Dear YANK: Military strategists probably have an explanation for it, but I think that the reason the boys took Rome so fast was that someone gave them a copy of the issue of YANK that had the picture of Pvt. Grace Glocke on the cover, and after they took one look they made up their minds that they just had to finish this war. In the 18 months I have read your magazine this is the best girl's picture you have published, so consequently I am going to break down and send you an application for a year's subscription. —Cpl. WILBUR E. RYAN Camp Barkeley, Tex. Dear YANK: I wonder if you could give me her address? . . . She might become our ship's pin-up girl. —FRED H. BASTIAN USS Blanco Dear YANK: . . . Those Wacs are girls from home, and they haven't all the excess make-up on or glamorous clothes or publicity agents. Yeow, why didn't I take up photography before I was drafted? Here's hoping to see some more Wac pictures. . . . —Pfc. R. H. FANNING, Jr. Alaska Dear YANK: . . . That is worth fighting for. —Pvt. W. P. Camp Ellis, Ill. Dear YANK: . . . We recommend additional personnel of this type, or a reasonable facsimile! —Sgt. P. A. GANA Presidio of San Francisco, Calif. Dear YANK: The man that made that choice knew what the score was. . . . She is tops in our book. —Pvt. PAUL SCHILLINGS Camp Wolters, Tex. Dear YANK: About five months ago—while winding up 3 1/2 years in the Pacific—I wrote to your magazine an article about how much I detested the Wacs. But now I realize what a first-class heel I was. . . . My narrow-minded opinion has changed entirely, and I am very proud of those gallant American women. . . . What this country needs is more of those wonderful girls. . . . Please print this, as I got quite a few letters from Wacs after they read my last article, and every one of them wrote such nice letters and wished my buddies and me the best of luck, I felt more ashamed than I have ever been before. —Pvt. WM. J. ROBINSON Letterman General Hospital, Calif. ■ Pretty Pvt. Grace Glocke whose picture we printed on YANK's cover (and again here) seems to have made a big hit with our readers. More than 300 letters were delivered to her at the Rapid City AAB, S. Dak., in the two weeks after YANK's publication of her picture, and mail for and about her continues to pour in at YANK's editorial offices. REPRODUCED FROM YANK MAGAZINE'S "MAIL CALL" [background, partly torn: YANK masthead and newsprint columns, partial and not legible as continuous text] [imprint: PC-X-11-RPB-9-22-44-5M]
