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title: Now Is the Time! For Men of 18-19 to Choose
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/now-is-the-time-men-18-19-army-1942/
description: 'A large photographic portrait of a young man looking upward, beside a montage of army scenes: marching troops, a parachute, a radio operator.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Now Is the Time! For Men of 18-19 to Choose, 1942 US poster: A large photographic portrait of a young man looking upward](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/now-is-the-time-men-18-19-army-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/now-is-the-time-men-18-19-army-1942.jpg)

# Now Is the Time! For Men of 18-19 to Choose

A large photographic portrait of a young man looking upward, beside a montage of army scenes: marching troops, a parachute, a radio operator, military police, a tank, a field gun, a liaison plane and jeeps. A card headed 'For Men of 18-19 to Choose' lists the Army branches, with 'Apply at the nearest U.S. Army Recruiting and Induction Station'. The montage lends the look of many service roles to the individual choice; the technique is faint.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NOW is the TIME!
For Men of 18-19
to Choose
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: printer's code, illegible]
```

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