Emergency Medical Field Unit
A blank organisation chart for a hospital's emergency medical field unit: a unit leader, two squads and eight teams of doctors, nurses and aides, with lines left blank for names. It is an administrative form, and the technique is faint here: only the official civil-defence imprint lends it authority.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Office of Civilian Defense
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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)
U.S. Office of Civilian Defense. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-719 (NAID 514206).
Text on the object
City of ______ Hospital EMERGENCY MEDICAL FIELD UNIT UNIT LEADER DOCTOR ______ SQUAD I COMPLEMENT LEADER DR. ______ DOCTORS: 3 & LEADER NURSES: 4 OR MORE NURSES AIDES AND ORDERLIES: 4 OR MORE SQUAD II COMPLEMENT LEADER DR. ______ DOCTORS: 3 & LEADER NURSES: 4 OR MORE NURSES AIDES AND ORDERLIES: 4 OR MORE TEAM 1 DOCTOR ______ NURSES ______ NURSES AIDES OR ORDERLIES ______ TEAM 2 DOCTOR ______ NURSES ______ NURSES AIDES OR ORDERLIES ______ TEAM 3 DOCTOR ______ NURSES ______ NURSES AIDES OR ORDERLIES ______ TEAM 4 DOCTOR ______ NURSES ______ NURSES AIDES OR ORDERLIES ______ [the Squad I and Squad II boxes each carry Teams 1 to 4 with the same blank lines] U. S. OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1941 O-430716
