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title: Pitch in and Help! Join the Women's Land Army
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pitch-in-and-help-womens-land-army-1943/
description: 'Recruiting poster: several women in overalls pick apples, milk a cow, feed chickens, carry a crate and drive a tractor.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Pitch in and Help! Join the Women's Land Army, 1943 US poster: Recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pitch-in-and-help-womens-land-army-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pitch-in-and-help-womens-land-army-1943.jpg)

# Pitch in and Help! Join the Women's Land Army

Recruiting poster: several women in overalls pick apples, milk a cow, feed chickens, carry a crate and drive a tractor, with the headline Pitch in and Help! and an invitation to join the Women's Land Army of the U.S. Crop Corps. The many busy workers invite the viewer to join the group.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Pitch in and Help!
JOIN THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY
OF THE U.S. CROP CORPS
[signature: MORLEY]
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE ... [illegible]]
```

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