Learn a skill you'll value all your life - Join the WAC now!
Women's Army Corps recruiting poster: four photographs of uniformed women at work, labelled Radio, Laboratory Work, Office Work and Mechanics, under the headline 'Learn a skill you'll value all your life' and the line 'JOIN THE WAC NOW!'. The tell is card-stacking: only the training and skilled-job benefits are shown, with the figure '239 types of Army jobs'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Women's Army Corps (U.S. Army Recruiting Publicity Bureau)
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1239 (NAID 514845).
Text on the object
Learn a skill you'll value all your life - Radio Laboratory Work Office Work Mechanics Get expert training for one of 239 types of Army jobs- JOIN THE WAC NOW ! Women's Army Corps-Apply at nearest U.S. Army Recruiting Station [imprint: P-X-43-RPS-5-10-44-25M, partly illegible, with a Recruiting Publicity Bureau mark]
