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title: Join U.S. Army Air Corps
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/join-us-army-air-corps-1941/
description: 'Recruiting poster: a smiling airman in leather helmet and goggles looks upward against a blue field with stars and red and white stripes.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Join U.S. Army Air Corps, 1941 US poster: Recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-us-army-air-corps-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/join-us-army-air-corps-1941.jpg)

# Join U.S. Army Air Corps

Recruiting poster: a smiling airman in leather helmet and goggles looks upward against a blue field with stars and red and white stripes, above the words Join U.S. Army Air Corps and the Air Corps roundel. The tell is transfer: flag colours and stars are attached to the service, with a happy, upward-looking face standing for its appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
JOIN
U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS
[signature:] Stan Ekman
[imprint:] COURTESY OF EMPLOYEES OF LITHOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY
[imprint:] LITHO. IN U.S.A.
```

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