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title: Mark it right! Service color and requisition number must agree
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mark-it-right-1944/
description: 'Army shipping-marking chart: two wooden crates, one with colour bands and one with a corner triangle, above a table pairing each supply service'
section: Collection
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[![Mark it right! Service color and requisition number must agree, 1944 US poster: Army shipping-marking chart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mark-it-right-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mark-it-right-1944.jpg)

# Mark it right! Service color and requisition number must agree

Army shipping-marking chart: two wooden crates, one with colour bands and one with a corner triangle, above a table pairing each supply service with a requisition-number range and a colour band or triangle symbol. The technique is faint here: it is an instructional chart, and only its imperative slogan 'Mark it right!' carries any persuasion.

## 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

```
SERVICE COLOR and REQUISITION NUMBER MUST AGREE
BOBO-K-SIGIV-SA6331X3
BOBO-K-ENGIV-SA452GC1
COLOR BANDS OF THIS TYPE FOR SIGNAL CORPS AND ARMY AIR FORCES
THIS TYPE OF CORNER TRIANGLE FOR ALL OTHER SERVICES
MARK IT RIGHT!
QUARTERMASTER CORPS 1 - 99
TRANSPORTATION CORPS 100 - 199
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 200 - 299
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT 300 - 399
CORPS OF ENGINEERS 400 - 499
ARMY AIR FORCES 500 - 599
SIGNAL CORPS 600 - 699
CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE 700 - 99
ARMY EXCHANGE SERVICE 800 - 899
SPECIAL SERVICE DIVISION 900 - 999
[imprint:] Identification of Separate Shipments "Service Color and Requisition Number Must Agree," approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 38-3, War Department 27 July 1944 (reproduction without permission prohibited). U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 - O - 602651
```

The Chemical Warfare Service range is printed '700- 99' as shown. Colour bars and triangle symbols beside the numbers are not text.

[← Margie poster no. 8 - Letters to soldiers concerning soldiers' deposits and savings](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/margie-poster-8-sharpers-tricks-1944/) [Markings of U.S. chemical munitions →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/markings-of-us-chemical-munitions-1944/)

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