I'd Rather Be with Them - Than Waiting
Colour photograph recruiting poster: a smiling woman in a steel helmet marked 'A/110', field pack and straps leans on a wooden rail against a blue sky, under a quoted line 'I'd rather be with them - than waiting' and a blue panel 'The WAC, Women's Army Corps'. The quotation is given to the pictured woman, a testimonial without a name; the 'them' is not identified on the sheet.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Women's Army Corps, U.S. Army
- 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)
Women's Army Corps, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-235 (NAID 513677).
Text on the object
"I'd rather be with them— than waiting" THE WAC WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS Apply at U.S. Army Recruiting Station or ask your local Postmaster [imprint:] P-X-17-RPB-8-4-44-[illegible]M
