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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army (Women's Army Corps recruiting)
- 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)
U.S. Army (Women's Army Corps recruiting). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-574 (NAID 514054).
Text on the object
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
