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title: Enlist in a Proud Profession! Join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/enlist-in-a-proud-profession-cadet-nurse-corps-portrait-1943/
description: Painted head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman in a grey Cadet Nurse uniform with red shoulder tabs, looking upward against a blue ground.
section: Collection
---

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[![Enlist in a Proud Profession! Join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, 1943 US poster: Painted head-and-shoulders portrait of a young](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/enlist-in-a-proud-profession-cadet-nurse-corps-portrait-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/enlist-in-a-proud-profession-cadet-nurse-corps-portrait-1943.jpg)

# Enlist in a Proud Profession! Join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps

Painted head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman in a grey Cadet Nurse uniform with red shoulder tabs, looking upward against a blue ground, under the headline 'Enlist in a Proud Profession!'. A blue box offers 'A Lifetime Education - Free!' to those who qualify. The tell for glittering-generalities is the 'proud profession' headline; the uniform and badges lend the standing of a service corps.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Enlist in a Proud Profession!
JOIN THE
U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS

A Lifetime Education-
FREE!
IF YOU CAN QUALIFY

FOR INFORMATION
GO TO YOUR LOCAL HOSPITAL
OR WRITE U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS, BOX 88, NEW YORK, N.Y.

[signature:] Edmundson
[imprint:] U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE   FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY

[patch:] CADET NURSE
```

[← 敵人侵略一日不止，我們抗戰一日不休！ (As Long as the Enemy Keeps Invading, We Keep Resisting), Military Affairs Commission poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/enemy-aggression-resistance-military-affairs-commission-poster-1940s/) [Enlist in a Proud Profession... Join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/enlist-in-a-proud-profession-cadet-nurse-corps-profile-1943/)

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