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title: Longing won't bring him back sooner... Get a war job!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/longing-wont-bring-him-back-get-a-war-job-wmc-1944/
description: A young woman in a red jacket holds a V-Mail letter to her chest in front of a service flag with a blue star, looking away from the viewer.
section: Collection
---

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[![Longing won't bring him back sooner... Get a war job!, 1944 US poster: A young woman in a red jacket holds a V-Mail letter](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/longing-wont-bring-him-back-get-a-war-job-wmc-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/longing-wont-bring-him-back-get-a-war-job-wmc-1944.jpg)

# Longing won't bring him back sooner... Get a war job!

A young woman in a red jacket holds a V-Mail letter to her chest in front of a service flag with a blue star, looking away from the viewer. The text says longing will not bring him back sooner and tells her to get a war job through the U.S. Employment Service. The technique is faint here: the appeal runs on the emotion of a waiting wife or mother, tying her private feeling to wartime employment.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Longing won't bring him back sooner...
GET A WAR JOB!
SEE YOUR U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
[signature: Lawrence Wilbur]
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office : 1944 - O - 595843]
```

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