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title: There's a man-size job for you in your Navy. Enlist in the WAVES
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mans-size-job-in-your-navy-waves-1943/
description: 'Navy recruiting poster for the women''s reserve: a WAVES officer in uniform looks into the distance, with a darkened scene of a warship.'
section: Collection
---

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[![There's a man-size job for you in your Navy. Enlist in the WAVES, 1943 US poster: Navy recruiting poster for the women's](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mans-size-job-in-your-navy-waves-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mans-size-job-in-your-navy-waves-1943.jpg)

# There's a man-size job for you in your Navy. Enlist in the WAVES

Navy recruiting poster for the women's reserve: a WAVES officer in uniform looks into the distance, with a darkened scene of a warship, aircraft and anti-aircraft bursts behind her. The banner calls the work a 'man-size job'. The technique is transfer: the battle imagery lends its weight to the enlistment, with a general appeal to duty.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
THERE'S A MAN-SIZE JOB FOR YOU IN YOUR NAVY

ENLIST IN THE WAVES
Apply to your nearest
NAVY RECRUITING STATION OR OFFICE OF NAVAL OFFICER PROCUREMENT

[on cap: U.S. NAVY]
[signature: JOHN FALTER USNR]
[imprint: ORDER NO. 22]
[imprint: NRB-35526-4-6-43-68M]
```

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