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title: Right Is Might
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/right-is-might-army-1941/
description: 'Army recruiting poster: a huge tank tread fills the left side with the words ''Right Is Might'' set into its links.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Right Is Might, 1941 US poster: Army recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/right-is-might-army-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/right-is-might-army-1941.jpg)

# Right Is Might

Army recruiting poster: a huge tank tread fills the left side with the words 'Right Is Might' set into its links, while three tanks fire across a plain below. A line at the foot calls men 18 to 19 to choose now and apply at any Army recruiting station. The slogan joins a moral claim to armoured force.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
RIGHT
IS
MIGHT
[small caption:] Armored Force
U.S. ARMY
MEN
18 - 19
[branch list:] Medical Department - Ordnance Department - Quartermaster Corps - Corps of Military Police - Chemical Warfare Service - Signal Corps - Air Forces - Armored Force - Cavalry - Infantry - Field Artillery - Corps of Engineers - Coast Artillery Corps (Antiaircraft - Harbor Defense)
CHOOSE
NOW!
APPLY AT ANY U. S. ARMY RECRUITING AND INDUCTION STATION
[signature:] STU-GRAVER
```

[← After seeing these boys in the air and on the ground](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rickenbacker-production-doubled-1941/) [Românii basarabeni, Bucovinenii și minoritarii pașnici (leaflet for Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Romanian and Russian sides) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/romanian-german-leaflet-bessarabia-1941/)

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