US Recruitment Posters, WWII
July 7th, 2011
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I didn’t know real photographs were used in posters at that time, i thought posters were always drawings.
Great post!
Just white guys and girls… Interesting!
My great-aunt, who just passed away in October at 96, was in the US Cadet Nurse Corps. By the time she graduated, the war was over, but it did give her a career.
One of her other nieces read the Cadet Nurse Pledge at her funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. It was very moving.