WAAC: This Is My War Too!
Recruiting poster: a uniformed woman in an Army cap and jacket looks upward in front of a large U.S. flag, under the headline 'WAAC' and the line 'This is my war too!'. The first-person slogan has the viewer speak as the woman and claim the war as hers; the flag adds national symbolism, with no specific duties or terms stated.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, U.S. Army; artist Dan V. Smith
- 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)
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, U.S. Army; artist Dan V. Smith. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-231 (NAID 513673).
Text on the object
WAAC THIS IS MY WAR TOO! WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS UNITED • STATES • ARMY [signature:] DAN·V·SMITH [imprint:] P-13-RPB-1-9-43-30M
