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title: Women of America's salute to the Marines
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/women-of-americas-salute-to-the-marines-1943/
description: 'Marine Corps Women''s Reserve recruiting sheet: a woman in green uniform with a clipboard stands at an aircraft propeller while a flight-suited man shields'
section: Collection
---

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[![Women of America's salute to the Marines, 1943 US poster: Marine Corps Women's Reserve recruiting sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/women-of-americas-salute-to-the-marines-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/women-of-americas-salute-to-the-marines-1943.jpg)

# Women of America's salute to the Marines

Marine Corps Women's Reserve recruiting sheet: a woman in green uniform with a clipboard stands at an aircraft propeller while a flight-suited man shields his eyes beside it. The line 'Free a Marine to Fight!' frames enlistment as service to the men at the front, a transfer of the Marines' prestige to the recruit.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Women of America's
"SALUTE TO THE MARINES"

Join the U.S. MARINE CORPS
Women's Reserve
apply at
YOUR LOCAL U. S. MARINE
CORPS RECRUITING OR
PROCUREMENT OFFICE
[stamp: APPLY 1400 PENNSYLVANIA AVE.]

Free a Marine
to Fight!

[imprint: LITHO U.S.A.]
```

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