Description
Full color 10″ x 13 1/2″ ad that urges you to join the National Guard and serve with your friends. There is a drawing where a Sargent is in the foreground looking at the reader as, in the background, stand a group of soldiers “at ease”. The headline has the Sargent saying “The outfit’s waitin’ for you, Joe!” and the text asks the reader if he recognizes anyone. It lists off a group of names and indicates that you may already have a friend who is serving in the National Guard and that you should join “the best outfit of the best National Guard this country’s ever had”. The ad gives reasons why having a strong and ready force of soldiers is what is necessary to maintain respect in the troubled times just after the end of World War II. It mentions the minimal time you would need to devote and some of the benefits you would receive, other than helping your country stay safe and at peace.
Source: October 20, 1947 Life magazine.
