Enlist in a Proud Profession... Join the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Photographic side profile of a young woman in a Cadet Nurse uniform, beret with eagle badge and shoulder patch, beside large blue lettering and a grey panel offering 'a lifetime education free' to qualifying high school graduates. The tell for glittering-generalities is the 'proud profession' headline; the uniform and insignia attach the standing of a service corps to nursing study.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency (U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps); distributed by the Office of War Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, Health, Gender and suffrage
- 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. Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency (U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-726 (NAID 514213).
Text on the object
Enlist in a Proud Profession... JOIN THE U.S. CADET NURSE CORPS A LIFETIME EDUCATION FREE! FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES WHO QUALIFY FOR INFORMATION GO TO YOUR LOCAL HOSPITAL OR WRITE U. S. CADET NURSE CORPS, BOX 88, NEW YORK, N. Y. [imprint:] Distributed by OWI for the Federal Security Agency U. S. Public Health Ser[illegible]ral Security Agency U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—562744 [patch:] CADET NURSE
