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title: I Need Your Skill in a War Job!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-need-your-skill-in-a-war-job-owi-1943/
description: Uncle Sam in a star-banded top hat points straight at the viewer above the headline 'I need your skill in a war job!'.
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# I Need Your Skill in a War Job!

Uncle Sam in a star-banded top hat points straight at the viewer above the headline 'I need your skill in a war job!'. A grey panel lists trades in demand and sends readers to the U.S. Employment Service. The pointing figure and direct address carry the authority of the government to a personal call for labor (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
I need your skill
in a WAR JOB!
[signature: James Montgomery Flagg]
If you know one of these trades and are not now in real war work, you are badly needed
Airplane Skin Man
Airplane Subassembler
Ammunition Inspector
Assembler, Ship
Bench Hand, Metal Work
Bus Driver
Carpenter, Ship
Cord Wood Cutter
Crane Rigger
Cylindrical Grinder Operator
Driller, Ship
Electrician, Ship
Flanging Press Operator
Internal Precision Grinder
Machinist, Outside
Metal Chipper
Milling Machine Operator
Milling Machine Operator, All-Round
Mixer Operator, Explosives
Radio Chassis Assembler
Painter, Ship, Rough or Finish
Plate Hanger
Screw Machine Operator
Tack Welder
See your nearest U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
[imprint: OWI Poster No. 25. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C.]
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-502683]
```

[← I need you on the job full time... don't get hurt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-need-you-on-the-job-dont-get-hurt-1943/) [If you tell where he's going... He may never get there! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-you-tell-where-hes-going-falter-1943/)

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