1940's Government and Politics | "Serve Your Country in the WAVES"

Poster

By: U.S. Navy

Date: 1944

Source: "Serve your country in the WAVES." 1944. Navy Historical Center. Department of the Navy. Available online at http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/posters/wwiiwomen/wavep1.htm; website home page http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html (accessed March 17, 2003).

About the Organization: Throughout World War II (1939–1945), the U.S. government recruited men into national service, urged citizens to ration scarce resources such as food and gasoline, warned Americans against sharing confidential military information, and encouraged people to buy war bonds. It also conducted campaigns to draw women into the military. The U.S. Navy, for example, advertised on behalf of its female corps, the WAVES. Such advertisements reinforced...