Serve Your Country as a Red Cross Volunteer Nurse's Aide (Air-raid in Hawaii)
Red Cross recruiting poster: a photograph captioned 'Air-raid in Hawaii' shows volunteers and nurses tending an injured person, above the text 'Serve your Country as a Red Cross Volunteer Nurse's Aide'. The Red Cross emblem and the Hawaii raid photograph attach the appeal to an actual attack; the recruiting ask is for 100,000 aides.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- American Red Cross
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
American Red Cross. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-323 (NAID 513770).
Text on the object
Air-raid in Hawaii VOLUNTEERS HELP RED CROSS NURSES TEND THE INJURED. AMERICA NEEDS 100,000 NURSE'S AIDES. Serve your Country as a Red Cross Volunteer NURSE'S AIDE APPLY TODAY FOR TRAINING INFORMATION POSTER 705
