WAC ads - What's the message?

Updated:  2/17/2023

​Are you looking for time capsules back into the 20th century?  

Advertising is a perennial repository of culture brimming with hints of "the way it was."

Some of my favorite ads recruit women to the Women's Army Corps (WAC).   I started collecting WAC advertisements while writing my novel, Women's Company - The Minerva Girls, about WACs in the 1960s and 1970s.

I invite you to take a look at two ads that I added recently to my collection.  Both ads appeared in popular women's magazines. 

• "Woman of the Army -- USA."  September 1944.  Harper's Bazaar. ​
• "How to tell your parents you want to join the Army."  September 1972.  Seventeen.  

WAC Recruiting Ad, Harper's Bazaar, September 1944

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