[Women at War:] Back the Attack! Join the WAC.

Patriotic poster recruiting for the Women’s Army Corps


Striking patriotic poster illustrated by Vincent Varvaro of a proud WAC member in uniform, smiling broadly, and saluting with her right hand. Beneath her, equally proud, is a helmeted United States infantryman in a crouched position with a fixed bayonet.

The poster solicits American women to join the WAC, the Women’s Army Corps.

“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)


Description: [Women at War:] Back the Attack! Join the WAC.

[America. Second World War.] Poster. 25 x 17½ inches. Shrink-wrapped to foam core; crease and small bump at lower right; very good.

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