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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Department, United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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)
War Department, United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1280 (NAID 514886).
Text on the object
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.
