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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department, Graphic Training Aid 38-3, printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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. War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1336 (NAID 514990).
Text on the object
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.
