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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (OWI Poster No. 25), with U.S. Employment Service; art by James Montgomery Flagg
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- 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)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-194 (NAID 513639).
Text on the object
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]
