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title: Speed them back, join the WAAC
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/speed-them-back-join-the-waac-1943/
description: 'Recruiting poster: a uniformed woman in cap, gloves and trench coat holds a whistle chain, with ranks of helmeted marching soldiers in a faded copper tone'
section: Collection
---

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[![Speed them back, join the WAAC, 1943 US poster: Recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/speed-them-back-join-the-waac-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/speed-them-back-join-the-waac-1943.jpg)

# Speed them back, join the WAAC

Recruiting poster: a uniformed woman in cap, gloves and trench coat holds a whistle chain, with ranks of helmeted marching soldiers in a faded copper tone behind her. The headline 'Speed them back' links her enlistment to the men's return; the soldiers' ranks lend the Army's standing to her image, a transfer.

## 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

```
Speed them back
Join the WAAC
WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS * U.S. ARMY
APPLY AT ANY U. S. ARMY RECRUITING AND INDUCTION STATION
[imprint: P-58-RPB-5-22-43-20M]
```

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