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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
WAAC: This Is My War Too
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, United States Army, 1942–1943
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A recruiting poster for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, from the corps' first fourteen months between May 1942 and July 1943, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-231 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was created on 15 May 1942 and converted to the Women's Army Corps on 1 July 1943. The Office of War Information's Bureau of Special Services gathered the sheet into the federal files the National Archives now keeps.
What to notice
The four letters of the headline date the sheet: a poster that says WAAC belongs to the months before the auxiliary became the Women's Army Corps.
A claim on the war, in the first person.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Enlist · Women at War
- Service
- Women’s services
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, United States Army, 1942–1943
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513673, local id 44-PA-231), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513673 · 44-PA-231
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 513673, 44-PA-231): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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