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WAC Recruiting Ads: 1961-1973


​Life was a little different then...



1961.
Mademoiselle ​magazine.
​April 1961.
WAC recruiting brochure,

1965.

Mademoiselle ​magazine.
​February 1965.
WAC Recruiting Ad, Mademoiselle magazine, February 1965.


1965.

U.S. Government Printing Office.  
June 1965.


WAC recruiting brochure - 1965 - young enlisted WAC in uniform
WAC recruiting brochure - 1965 - young enlisted WAC in uniform
1965.
U.S. Government Printing Office.
​July 1965.

WAC recruiting brochure - 1965 - line drawings of four young WACs
                     Front Cover.  16-page recruiting brochure.
WAC Recruiting Brochure - 1965 - line drawings of one young WAC and the insignia of Pallas Athena
          Back cover.  16-page recruiting brochure.
1966.

U.S. Government Printing Office.
​July 1966.
WAC recruiting brochure - July 1966 - color photos of young WACs in uniform on and off-duty around the world
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Front Cover.  14-page recruiting brochure.
1967.
Senior Scholastic ​magazine​.
​May 19, 1967.
WAC recruiting ad - May 1967 - Young enlisted WAC and friend bicycling off-duty.
1967. 
Saturday Evening Post magazine.
​May 20, 1967.
WAC ad - May 1967 -This is Corrine Carlton
1967. 
Mademoiselle magazine.
​July 1967.
WAC recruiting ad - 1967 - Young WAC officer applying eye make-up
1967.

Mademoiselle magazine.
November 1967.
WAC Recruiting Ad -  Nov. 1967.  Carol's an intelligence analyst.  Young WAC officer off-duty in civilian clothes dancing with friend.



1968.

Seventeen magazine.

​April 1968.


WAC recruiting ad - 1968 - Young WAC enlisted woman in uniform working in control tower as an air traffic controller.

1968.
Mademoiselle magazine.
​November 1968.
WAC recruiting ad - 1968 - young WAC officer in uniform at work in  military intelligence.
1969.
Ingenue magazine.
January 1969.
WAC recruiting ad - 1969 - Young enlisted WAC in uniform at work as an intelligence analyst



1969.
Mademoiselle magazine.
March 1969.
WAC Recruiting Ad - 1969 - head & shoulders photo of young civilian woman pondering the possibility of becoming a WAC officer
1969.  
​'Teen magazine.
​May 1969.
WAC recruiting ad - 1969 - young enlisted WAC in uniform holding files in her job in administration
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1969.
Glamour magazine.
​November 1969.
WAC Recruiting Ad - 1969 - young civilian woman at home considering possibilities of becoming a WAC officer

1970.

Seventeen magazine.

February 1970.

WAC recruiting ad - 1970 - young WAC enlisted woman working in administration confers with a general
1970.
Senior Scholastic magazine.
April 20, 1970.
Picture

1971.
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Glamour magazine.  

​March 1971.

WAC recruiting ad - 1971 - myths about the WAC

1971.

Glamour ​magazine.

​October 1971.

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WAC ad - 1971 - Text accompanying the photos of young civilian women
WAC recruiting ad showing young civilian Asian, Black, and White girls - 1971

​1972.

Life magazine.  
​January 1972.
WAC recruiting ad - 1972 - group photo of Army enlisted and officer men and women in uniform
WAC recruiting ad - 1972 - Text accompanying group photo of  Army enlisted and officer men and women in uniform

​1972.  
​Mademoiselle magazine.  
​April 1972.
WAC Ad - 1972 - Text accompanying photo of WAC lieutenant in civilian clothes & her husband with their bicycles
WAC recruiting ad - 1972 - WAC lieutenant in civilian clothes with her husband & their bicycles
1972.
Seventeen magazine.
September 1972.
Picture

1972.

Seventeen magazine.
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November 1972.
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WAC recruiting ad - 1972 -  young enlisted Black WAC in uniform at work in communications

1972.
Life magazine.
November 3, 1972.


WAC Recruiting Ad - 1972 - young enlisted Black, Hispanic, and White WACS in uniform
1972.
Cosmopolitan magazine.
​December 1972.
WAC Recruitment Ad - 1972 - young woman at her civilian administrative job
1973.
Cosmopolitan magazine.
April 1973.
WAC recruiting ad - 1973 - young WAC in civilian clothes enjoying dinner with a friend in San Francisco, California
WAC History in 10 Easy Steps

​Notes: 
1.  "Great myths about The Women's Army Corps," N.W. Ayer Advertising Agency Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
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