If you want to fly
Recruiting poster: a young man in a US Army Air Forces officer's cap and uniform with pilot wings looks upward against a blue sky. Text directs high-school students to the High School Victory Corps, the Civil Air Patrol and the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve at age 17, and the base reads 'Fly and fight with the AAF, greatest team in the world'. The slogan is a glittering generality; the uniform and wings add transfer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Air Forces
- 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, 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)
U.S. Army Air Forces. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1069 (NAID 514596).
Text on the object
IF YOU WANT TO FLY SEE YOUR HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL OR ADVISOR NOW ABOUT RECOMMENDED COURSES IN THE AIR SERVICE DIVISION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL VICTORY CORPS AND TRAINING THROUGH THE CIVIL AIR PATROL AN AUXILIARY OF THE ARMY AIR FORCES IF YOU ARE 17 You May Qualify for THE AIR CORPS ENLISTED RESERVE And Remain in School Until You Are 18 or Over See Your Nearest Aviation Cadet Examining Board or Your Local Civil Air Patrol Officers Begin This Pre-Aviation Training NOW To Win Your Wings As A BOMBARDIER * NAVIGATOR * PILOT FLY AND FIGHT WITH THE [AAF ARMY AIR FORCES] GREATEST TEAM IN THE WORLD [imprint: P-X-45--RPB--2-29-44--60M; small imprint box partly legible]
