7 awesome posters that motivated your grandfather in World War II

Soooooo cool

In my family it was my two uncles that went into the Navy, my grandfather at that time was already in his late 60's.

I graduated from St. Luke's nursing school in Racine, Wisconsin, summer of 1941. I wanted to be a stewardess and travel the world and an RN was required at the time. I got a nursing job right after graduation at Waukesha Memorial, dedicated to remembering the soldiers of WWI. Little did I realize I would be in the next world war.

I became good friends with my lifelong friend Marry (Rodden) Nagel. By early in 1942 the US military was asking for nurses. We were so inexperienced we thought the older nurses would go. But they were distraught and begged us to go. They had families, husbands, their relatives and friends. We had our whole lives ahead of us. So Mary and I signed up in March 1942. This poster was later than that though. Our original uniforms were dress whites like my hat in my picture from 1942. When the WACs came in, everything changed for us. People treated us differently, more respect, we got a hefty pay raise and our uniforms went to olive drab. I liked the whites much better, but more respect and remuneration were worth the change.