It Will Help You Get a Job!
A young woman in a graduation cap and gown holds a rolled diploma under the red headline 'It will help you get a job!', above a panel about USAFI correspondence courses with a helmeted soldier's face. The tell for card-stacking is the list of benefits (300 courses, academic credit, $2 for all costs) with no limits or difficulties stated.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department, United States Armed Forces Institute (War Department Poster No. 28-3)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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, United States Armed Forces Institute (War Department Poster No. 28-3). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1118 (NAID 514645).
Text on the object
It will help you get A JOB! Through USAFI you can study for your school diploma while in the Army. Why not get this head start on the future? What would you like to learn, Soldier? USAFI offers more than 300 college, high school and trade courses. Work you complete can be submitted for academic credit in civilian schools. $2 pays all costs. See your information-education officer or librarian for the USAFI catalog, or write direct: USAFI, Madison 3, Wisconsin. USAFI UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE [imprint:] WAR DEPARTMENT POSTER No. 28-3 [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1945-O-625025 [imprint:] DISTRIBUTION: AAF (10); AGF (10); ASF (2); S Div ASF (2); Tech Sv (2); Sv C (10); Class I, II, & IV Installations (Info-Ed Off) (10); ASTU (5); (No overseas distribution)
