Want action? Join U.S. Marine Corps!
Marine Corps recruiting poster: a painted smiling Marine in helmet and khaki, rifle with bayonet in one hand and the other open toward the viewer, ships and an aircraft behind him. The headline asks 'Want action?' and then 'join U.S. Marine Corps!'. The tell is an appeal to excitement and adventure, with an approachable, friendly figure inviting the viewer.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Marine Corps (artist James Montgomery Flagg)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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. Marine Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-70 (NAID 513532).
Text on the object
WANT ACTION? join U·S·Marine Corps! [signature: James Montgomery Flagg] APPLY TO NEAREST RECRUITING STATION [imprint: Alpha Lithograph Co., Camden, N.J. 3-12-43 10M 436 PB]
