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title: Nurses Are Needed Now! Army Nurse Corps
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nurses-are-needed-now-army-nurse-corps-1944/
description: Painted portrait of a nurse in a white uniform and cap with the Nurse Corps caduceus on her collar, an ambulance with red crosses behind her.
section: Collection
---

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# Nurses Are Needed Now! Army Nurse Corps

Painted portrait of a nurse in a white uniform and cap with the Nurse Corps caduceus on her collar, an ambulance with red crosses behind her, and the headline 'Nurses are needed now!' with an age limit and application address. The tell for transfer is the borrowed authority of the uniform, caduceus and Red Cross emblems attached to the recruiting request.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
NURSES ARE NEEDED NOW!
IF YOU ARE A REGISTERED NURSE AND NOT YET 45 YEARS OF AGE APPLY TO THE SURGEON GENERAL, UNITED STATES ARMY, WASHINGTON 25, D. C., OR TO ANY RED CROSS PROCUREMENT OFFICE
ARMY NURSE CORPS
INFORMATIONAL PAMPHLETS MAY BE OBTAINED AT U. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATIONS
[signature:] Bernatschke
[imprint:] P-74-RPB-[illegible]-44-[illegible]
```

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