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title: Join the WAC now!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/join-the-wac-now-1944/
description: 'Women''s Army Corps recruiting sheet in yellow and black panels: photographs of a woman working on radio equipment beside a sergeant and a woman'
section: Collection
---

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[![Join the WAC now!, 1944 US poster: Women's Army Corps recruiting sheet in yellow and black panels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-the-wac-now-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-the-wac-now-1944.jpg)

# Join the WAC now!

Women's Army Corps recruiting sheet in yellow and black panels: photographs of a woman working on radio equipment beside a sergeant and a woman at a laboratory bench, and a map of nine Service Commands. Three 'Choose your...' headlines list the options on offer (239 jobs, three branches, a home station) and are the tell: only the choices are shown, with no mention of risk or hardship.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Choose
your job
from 239 types of
Army work

Choose your
branch of service
Army Air Forces, Army Ground Forces
or Army Service Forces

Choose
your station
in the Service Command
where you enlist

[map of the United States with nine numbered Service Command areas]

JOIN THE WAC NOW !
★ GET FULL DETAILS AT U.S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION ★
[blank strip for local stamp]
OR — ASK POSTMASTER FOR FREE POST CARD AND MAIL IT TODAY

[imprint:] P-X-43—RPB—1-12-44—25M
```

[← Japan's Life Line (leaflet 10-J-1, MacArthur and Nimitz cutting the supply lines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japans-life-line-leaflet-1944/) [Keep oil off floors →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-oil-off-floors-1944/)

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