--- title: Information url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/information-army-special-service-division-1943/ description: 'Wide display sheet titled ''Information'' with ten framed panels describing the Army''s information media for soldiers: films, an orientation course.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Information **Content note:** Reproduces an Army orientation booklet titled 'How the Jap Army Fights', with a caricatured figure on its cover, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Information, 1943 US poster: Wide display sheet titled 'Information' with ten framed panels describing the Army's information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/information-army-special-service-division-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/information-army-special-service-division-1943.jpg) # Information Wide display sheet titled 'Information' with ten framed panels describing the Army's information media for soldiers: films, an orientation course, a weekly Newsmap, news service, YANK, camp newspapers, radio, pocket guides and a Digest. The technique is faint here; the closest is card-stacking, since the sheet presents only the Army's own channels and its stated aim of giving soldiers 'a clear understanding of the causes of the war'. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` INFORMATION FILMS Seven films, of which "Prelude to War" was the first, to be shown as part of the Army Orientation Course. Also in preparation, films to provide information on our allies, our enemies, and on current war events. ORIENTATION COURSE [reproduced covers: The War IN OUTLINE / MATERIALS FOR THE USE OF ARMY ORIENTATION COURSE / PREPARED BY SPECIAL SERVICE DIVISION Army of the United States; AN INFANTRY JOURNAL - PENGUIN SPECIAL / MODERN BATTLE / LT. COL. PAUL W. THOMPSON / [illegible small print]; AN INFANTRY JOURNAL - PENGUIN SPECIAL / HOW THE JAP ARMY FIGHTS] "To fix in the minds of the American soldier a sense of the importance of his personal role and responsibilities in the current struggle." Materials furnished for the course as given to recruits and to the Army as a whole. (See Newsmap, Films, News Service.) The Information Branch of the Special Service Division seeks to give soldiers a clear under- standing of the causes of the war and to keep them abreast of its current developments. It employs the three principal media —motion pictures, radio, and the printed word. NEWSMAP Distributed weekly to all posts, camps, and stations on basis of one per company, unit, or one per day room. Face of map shows current war news. Reverse side is an information poster for permanent display refer- ence. Newsmap should be used as the basis for a weekly orientation discussion on the war. NEWS SERVICE [reproduced teletype page headed SPECIAL SERVICE DIVISION NEWS ... ; body text illegible] A summary of world news—sent daily by wire to a majority of all troops in the U. S. and overseas. The Domestic Service Summa- ries are scheduled to reach Special Service Officers early each morn- ing. [reproduced cover: YANK THE ARMY WEEKLY 5¢ APR. 9 1943 ... By the men, for the men in the service; THE LAST TO EAT; YANK Proposes Changes in Army Mail Regulations] Written by enlisted men for enlisted men. CAMP NEWSPAPER SERVICE Camp newspapers, of which there are more than 800 in the U. S. and overseas, are un- der the general super- vision of the Special Service Division. To their editors is sent the weekly Clip Sheet, monthly G. I. Galley, and other material for their assistance. [reproductions: G.I. GALLEY; Camp Newspaper Service Clip Sheet; Officers and Editors—PLEASE Note!; POST A NEWSPAPER FOR AND BY SOLDIERS; RED CROSS DRIVE SCHEDULED THIS MONTH; ANNOUNCE WAR BON... FOR MARC...; Army Editors' MANUAL; other small print illegible] RADIO RADIO BROADCASTS TO TROOPS OVERSEAS LONG WAVE SHORT WAVE Forty programs produced weekly for the infor- mation, education, and entertainment of troops overseas, broadcast by shortwave. Transcriptions (records) of above and of 20 leading commercial programs are sent abroad for rebroadcasting locally. POCKET GUIDES ISSUED TO TROOPS GOING OVERSEAS [reproduced covers: POCKET GUIDE TO AUSTRALIA / WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS / Washington, D. C.; ...DONIA; ...AND; ...IA; A SHORT GUIDE TO SYRIA; ...PT; ...TH...CA] [reproduced Special Service DIGEST, vol. and date illegible: CIR.55 SEEN AS STEP TO BETTER CAMP PAPERS / Advertising Agencies Loan More Units To Publish Own Papers With More Real Camp News, Camp Songs...; C.N.S. CONTEST WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED; body text illegible] Published monthly for the guidance of Commanding Officers and their Special Service Officers. [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, bottom centre, rest illegible] ``` [← In the face of obstacles - Courage. Infantry. United States Army.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/in-the-face-of-obstacles-courage-infantry-1943/) [Insignia of the Army of the United States →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/insignia-of-the-army-of-the-united-states-1943/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.