It might seem strange that the patron saint of France would appear on a US Treasury Department poster encouraging American women to buy war savings stamps, but the story of Joan of Arc has long resonated beyond her city of Orléans. A kind of mythic shield-maiden, Joan of Arc is imagined engaging in the masculine pursuit of glory in battle without yielding her femininity — note the soft features of the woman in the poster — or, importantly, her maidenhood, which in this image is safely encased in full-body metal armor; the American woman could fulfill a similar role by supporting US involvement in World War I monetarily. By drawing a tether between the French past and the American present, this Coffin poster legitimizes US involvement in a war on European soil: the woman in the poster is both Joan of Arc and the American everywoman, bedecked in medieval European armor but color coded in the red, white, and blue of the modern American flag.