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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
Want Action? Join U.S. Marine Corps!
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1941–1945
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 Marine Corps recruiting poster of the Second World War, dated between 1941 and 1945, held by the National Archives as 44-PA-70 in its World War II Posters series.
Why it matters
The Office of War Information ran from June 1942 to September 1945 as the link between the battlefront and the civilian communities, and its Bureau of Special Services gathered this sheet.
What to notice
The question and its answer in one line, the Corps selling itself on the single thing a young man was assumed to want.
A question with only one answer.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Campaign
- Enlist
- Service
- Marines
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Marine Corps recruiting, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513532, local id 44-PA-70), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513532 · 44-PA-70
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 513532, 44-PA-70): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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