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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Nurse Corps, Office of the Surgeon General; artist Bernatschke
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- War and the military, Health, Home front
- 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. Army Nurse Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-204 (NAID 513647).
Text on the object
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]
