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title: Let's talk about you!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-talk-about-you-usafi-1945/
description: 'War Department poster for servicemen in colour: a smiling woman in a polka-dot blouse holds her glasses and looks at the viewer beside the words ''Let''s'
section: Collection
---

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[![Let's talk about you!, 1945 US poster: War Department poster for servicemen in colour](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-talk-about-you-usafi-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lets-talk-about-you-usafi-1945.jpg)

# Let's talk about you!

War Department poster for servicemen in colour: a smiling woman in a polka-dot blouse holds her glasses and looks at the viewer beside the words 'Let's talk about you!'. The text offers USAFI correspondence courses for $2 and a blue panel shows a helmeted soldier. The technique is faint: a friendly personal address, with an attractive woman presented as the voice of the offer.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Let's talk about you!
Think today about the job you want later. Prepare for it now. USAFI offers you excellent business, technical and vocational courses. Choose your subject. Enroll today.
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
WAR DEPARTMENT POSTER NO. 28-1
☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945—O—625024
Distribution: AAF (10); AGF (10); ASF (2); S Div ASF (2); Tech Sv (2); SvC (10); Class I, II, and IV Installations (Info-Ed Off) (10); ASTU (5); (No overseas distribution).
```

The distribution line at the foot is small; it is read as printed.

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