Be A Marine WWII US Marine Corps Womens Reserve
Original vintage World War Two recruitment poster - Be a Marine... Free a Marine to Fight U.S Marine Corps Women's Reserve - featuring a dynamic illustration of a lady in military uniform in front of soldiers charging into battle armed with rifle guns in the background, the bold red and black title text in stylised lettering below. The United States Marine Corps USMC was founded in 1798 becoming part of the U.S. Department of the Navy DON and the United States Navy USN in 1834. Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve was established in 1943 to enable women to serve in the Navy and Marine Corps on the home front during the Second World War (since 1918 women worked in the Marine Corps in administrative roles only); this wartime Reserve was demobilized in 1946 but in 1948 the Women's Armed Services Act was passed that enabled women to serve in the regular Marine Corps. Good condition, staining, creasing, tears at margins.
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