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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, 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. Navy. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-18 (NAID 513514).
Text on the object
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.
