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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Manpower Commission; Lawrence Wilbur (artist)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, 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)
War Manpower Commission. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-389 (NAID 513840).
Text on the object
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]
