Men of 18 and 19: Now you can choose your branch of service
Army recruiting poster: a low-angle photograph of a helmeted young soldier looking upward, a black brush banner reading 'Men of 18 and 19', and a torn-paper list of ten branches of service. The heroic upward gaze carries admiration onto enlistment (transfer); the list presents the choice of branch and gives no term, pay or risk (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1345 (NAID 514999).
Text on the object
MEN of 18 and 19 NOW you can choose your branch of service CORPS of ENGINEERS MEDICAL DEPARTMENT QUARTERMASTER CORPS ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT INFANTRY ★ FIELD ARTILLERY ARMORED FORCE ★ CAVALRY SIGNAL CORPS ★ AIR FORCES CORPS of MILITARY POLICE CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE COAST ARTILLERY CORPS (Antiaircraft ★ Harbor Defense) APPLY AT THE NEAREST U.S. ARMY RECRUITING and INDUCTION STATION [imprint: P-46-SPB-11-17-42-50M]
