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Bring him home sooner--Join the Waves / John Falter, USNR. – Antique Print

Bring him home sooner--Join the Waves / John Falter, USNR., [19]44. — vintage poster
Bring him home sooner--Join the Waves / John Falter, USNR., [19]44.. Vintage poster from the Family Life collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Bring him home sooner--Join the Waves / John Falter, USNR. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The message of this 1944 Navy poster, "Bring him home sooner," turns a farewell embrace into a recruiting appeal. It asks women to join the WAVES so that more men could leave shore duty and return to the fleet. John Falter, a Navy Reserve artist, painted it during the war, when he was producing many images for the service. The WAVES, the women's reserve created in 1942, filled clerical, technical and other jobs ashore, freeing sailors for sea duty.

Created / published[19]44.
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreWar posters American 1940-1950.Prints Color 1940-1950.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Recruiting & enlistment--United States. Women--Military service--1940-1950. Farewells--1940-1950. Hugging--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,145 × 1,457 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216131

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