My girl's a WOW (Woman Ordnance Worker)
A smiling soldier in a steel helmet holds up a grey portrait of a young woman in a polka-dot head scarf and white blouse wearing a numbered plant badge, above a red band reading 'My girl's a WOW'. The soldier's pride speaks for the woman worker (testimonial), and his uniform lends military standing to factory work (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ordnance Department, U.S. Army (artist Ralph Treidler)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Labor, War and the military
- 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)
Ordnance Department, U.S. Army. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1378 (NAID 515037).
Text on the object
"My girl's a WOW" WOMAN ORDNANCE WORKER ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT * U. S. ARMY KEEP 'EM SHOOTING! [badge number:] 14002 [signature:] RALPH TREIDLER [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943 [remainder illegible]
