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title: 'First Aid in Action: Hospital Corps'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/first-aid-in-action-hospital-corps-1943/
description: 'U.S. Navy Hospital Corps recruiting sheet: a corpsman in helmet kneels over a casualty in the field, with a grid of photographs of laboratory.'
section: Collection
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[![First Aid in Action: Hospital Corps, 1943 US poster: U.S. Navy Hospital Corps recruiting sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/first-aid-in-action-hospital-corps-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/first-aid-in-action-hospital-corps-1943.jpg)

# First Aid in Action: Hospital Corps

U.S. Navy Hospital Corps recruiting sheet: a corpsman in helmet kneels over a casualty in the field, with a grid of photographs of laboratory, dental and hospital trades below and the line 'plan your future now!'. The tell is the career-training appeal, with combat first aid shown beside peacetime skills. The sheet is printed with part of the layout upside down.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HOSPITAL CORPS · UNITED STATES NAVY
FIRST AID IN
Action
[inverted panel:] ...THE HOSPITAL CORPSMAN HAS A REAL JOB TO DO
in fields of Action
plan your future now!
HOSPITAL CORPS
UNITED STATES NAVY
[photo captions, right way up:] Dental Technologist; Qualified Assistant in Physical Therapy; Qualified Assistant in Fever Therapy; Qualified Assistant in Low-Pressure Technique; Qualified Assistant in Deep-Sea Diving; Qualified Assistant in Epidemiology and Sanitation; Dental Technologist (Prosthetic); Qualified Assistant in Operating Room Technique; Qualified Assistant in Aviation Medicine; Qualified Assistant in Medical Field Service; Medical Technologist; X-Ray Technologist; Associate and Qualified Assistants in Property and Accounting; Qualified Assistant in Commissary; Hospital Corpsman Nurse; Qualified Assistant in Electrocardiography and Basal Metabolism; Qualified Assistant in Pharmacy and Chemistry
[inverted photo captions:] Entrance to a Mobile Hospital, Somewhere in the Pacific; Transportation of the Injured by Sea-Going Navy Stokes Stretcher; Field Treatment of the Wounded in Action; Bringing the Wounded Aboard at Attu, May 1943; Transferring an Injured Survivor of a Torpedoed Ship from Amphibious Rescue Plane to a Naval Hospital
[small print:] Official Navy and Marine Corps Photos Throughout
```

Many small captions are illegible; inverted panel text transcribed as read.

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