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l i n k s: Advertisement for WAVES
- Recruitment poster for the WAVES [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service], a unit of the Naval Reserves. As with the WACs they filled a range of positions- clerical, technical, linguistic and more.
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/posters.html (Added: 14-Dec-1999 Hits: 817 )
Subject: Propaganda/American/Recruitment/Women Time Period: 1940s File Type: Posters etc
Enlist in SPARS
- Recuitment poster for the SPARS, the women's auxiliary Coast Guard Unit in WW2. (From Coast Guard motto Semper Paratus- Always Ready). Text reads- Make a Date with Uncle Sam- Enlist with the Coast Guard Spars. (Added: 14-Dec-1999 Hits: 374 )
Subject: Propaganda/American/Recruitment/Women Time Period: 1940s File Type: Posters etc
For Your Country's Sake
- Recruitment poster for Armed forces showing (from left) a WAC, WAVES, Marine and SPAR (army, navy, marines and coast guard).
http://www.wasp-wwii.org/wasp/signs.htm (Added: 14-Dec-1999 Hits: 463 )
Subject: Propaganda/American/Recruitment/Women Time Period: 1940s File Type: Posters etc
I Am In This War Too
- Recruitment poster for Women's Army Corps, reminding the viewer that " I'm in this war too!" showing a recruit pointing to a star representing military service.
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/posters.html (Added: 14-Dec-1999 Hits: 398 )
Subject: Propaganda/American/Recruitment/Women Time Period: 1940s File Type: Posters etc
Nurses are Needed
- Recruitment poster for US Army Nurse Corps, showing an exhausted nurse in fatigues with text MORE nurses are needed! Men were not allowed in the Nurse Corps, and there was a growing concern about a nursing shortage. In 1945 Congress began the process of passing a bill to draft nurses which passed in the House but died with the surrender of Germany. There were about 57,000 nurses in the corps by the end of the war.
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/posters.html (Added: 14-Dec-1999 Hits: 327 )
Subject: Propaganda/American/Recruitment/Women Time Period: 1940s File Type: Posters etc
Typists Needed
- Poster of a young woman saluting the viewer from behind a typewriter, urging others to help the war effort by becoming stenographers for the U.S. Civil Service. The background is the tricolor flag--red, white, and blue stripes.
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/united.html (Added: 14-Dec-1999 Hits: 220 )
Subject: Propaganda/American/Recruitment/Women Time Period: 1940s File Type: Posters etc
WAC- I'd Rather be with Them...
- Recruitment poster for WAC (Women's Army Corps) showing a soldier in combat uniform saying "I'd rather be with them, than waiting".
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/posters.html (Added: 14-Dec-1999 Hits: 320 )
Subject: Propaganda/American/Recruitment/Women Time Period: 1940s File Type: Posters etc
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