[Women at War:] Join the WAC. ... this is my war, too.

An appeal for American women to join the Women’s Army Corps

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Compelling patriotic poster of a proud WAC member in uniform, seated on a military hospital bed, typewriter upon her lap, contributing to the war effort.

The poster solicits American women to join the WAC, the Women’s Army Corps. Additionally, a line of text at the bottom reads: “This Poster Contributed to the WAC by Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford, Mass. [Massachusetts].” (We surmise this textile concern may have had a contract with the military to make uniforms.)

“Over 150,000 American women served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during World War 11. Members of the WAC were the first women other than nurses to serve within the ranks of the United States Army. Both the Army and the American public initially had difficulty accepting the concept of women in uniform. However, political and military leaders, faced with fighting a two-front war and supplying men and materiel for that war while continuing to send lend-lease material to the Allies, realized that women could supply the additional resources so desperately needed in the military and industrial sectors. Given the opportunity to make a major contribution to the national war effort, women seized it. By the end of the war their contributions would be widely heralded.” (US Army Center of Military History)

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