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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, U.S. Army
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Gender and suffrage
- 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, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1789 (NAID 515467).
Text on the object
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]
