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War Manpower Commission poster stating "I'm Proud...my husband wants me to do my part!" with a man and a woman pictured

This is a WWII-era recruitment poster for the Women's Army Corps, declaring, "This is my war too!" as a rallying cry to mobilize and inspire women to join in the war effort. The poster features a white woman in her crisp army uniform standing against…

A scene from the John Ford classic The Searchers. The film is the apex of both the Western genre and Ford's filmography. It shows the complex nature of Victory Culture in post-WWII.

The scene is between a Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards (John…

This is a recruitment poster for the WAAC circa 1942. A young, presumably white, woman stands in front of a WAAC marching formation. The poster played upon the idea that all woman should join in the war effort and do their fair share. This is…

This colored World War II-era poster was used as a recruitment tool for the Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES), or the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve. The white woman, wearing her Navy uniform, is saluting in a…

This World War II-era colored poster was used as a recruitment tool for the WAC (Women's Army Reserve) after its creation in 1943. A pretty, young white woman stands in her army drab against a background of a fluttering American flag, representing…

This poster, created in either 1942 or '43, depicts a young white woman wearing her WAAC uniform, holding what appears to be a whistle. She stands against a background showing a marching formation of American soldiers.

This colored WWII recruitment poster shows a group of smiling, white young women wearing their Navy uniforms serving in the WAVES

This is a photograph of Army Nurse Corps veteran Marcella Ryan LeBeau taken in the summer of 2016.

This is a strip of eighteen one-panel comics containing Winnie the WAC, as a caricature of women in the Women's Army Corps. These eighteen panels were featured in a 1945 edition of Life Magazine.