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title: Now, what was I supposed to remember?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/now-what-was-i-supposed-to-remember-navy-1944/
description: Cartoon of a freckled, wide-eyed sailor with a string tied round his finger, standing outside a doorway under a sign reading 'PRO STATION'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Now, what was I supposed to remember?, 1944 US poster: Cartoon of a freckled, wide-eyed sailor with a string tied round his](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/now-what-was-i-supposed-to-remember-navy-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/now-what-was-i-supposed-to-remember-navy-1944.jpg)

# Now, what was I supposed to remember?

Cartoon of a freckled, wide-eyed sailor with a string tied round his finger, standing outside a doorway under a sign reading 'PRO STATION', with the headline 'Now, what was I supposed to remember?' The technique is faint here: a comic everyman sailor (plain-folks) carries the message, and the sheet does not state what is to be remembered beyond the sign.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NOW, WHAT WAS I
SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER?
PRO
STATION
[signature:] WOODCOCK '44
[imprint:] VP-8—Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U. S. Navy
[imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—587231
[imprint:] Prepared in cooperation with the U. S. Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
```

[← No one had to tell HIM to save food and equipment (Valley Forge 1778)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/no-one-had-to-tell-him-valley-forge-1944/) [Nurses Are Needed Now! Army Nurse Corps →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nurses-are-needed-now-army-nurse-corps-1944/)

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