Soldiers without guns
Three women in a welder's hood, a polka-dot headscarf and a blouse stand at machines, each wearing a photo badge, over the title 'Soldiers without guns' on a yellow band. Calling war workers soldiers borrows the prestige of military service for factory work, a transfer aimed at women.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army; Adolph Treidler (signature)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Gender and suffrage, 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-229 (NAID 513671).
Text on the object
U. S. ARMY OFFICIAL POSTER SOLDIERS without guns [badges:] 180041; MIZON; ARMY [signature:] ADOLPH TREIDLER [imprint:] ISD No. 180 [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—608[illegible]
