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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (artist Woodcock)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, 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. Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1429 (NAID 515092).
Text on the object
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.
