Education
Photo-panel exhibit sheet headed 'Education'. Photographs and captions show soldiers using libraries, correspondence courses, magazines, language records and radio-code records, with a '1943 Film Catalog' cover among the items. It shows only the services on offer and no limits or costs.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Special Service Division (named on the sheet as distributor; issuer line not printed)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Army Special Service Division. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-715 (NAID 514202).
Text on the object
Self-education and entertainment are provided by books and magazines distributed by Special Service Division. Reference and technical books are as easily available as books of fiction. Paper-covered books and microphotographed magazines are produced for overseas and given wide distribution. Patients in Army hospitals are provided with adequate reading material. Traveling libraries provide plenty of books for small isolated units. EDUCATION Off-duty time can be spent profitably in self-teaching courses. A soldier can continue many of the courses he was studying in school or college with academic credit. Magazines are dropped to isolated units from planes each week. Self-teaching courses include useful subjects from typing to welding "Mail Call" can mean "School Call" when Army Institute courses arrive. From phonograph records and accompanying instructions soldiers can easily learn subjects important to them. Practice sheets and 22 phonograph records teach basic radio code. Twenty-eight languages taught by phonograph and glossaries. Education is also available through easily available instructive motion picture films. [items shown, partly legible:] SHORTHAND A Self-Teaching Course; LANGUAGE GUIDE TO NORTH AFRICA; How to Use Your Eyes At Night; ARMY INSTITUTE CATALOG "WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN?"; Education in the ARMED FORCES; ARMY LIBRARY SERVICE UNIT SET OF MAGAZINES; Basic Radio Code INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL A COURSE IN FUNDAMENTALS THE ARMY INSTITUTE MADISON WISCONSIN; 1943 FILM CATALOG ARMED FORCES EDITION [imprint:] [illegible]
