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title: Nurses are needed now!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nurses-are-needed-now-savage-army-nurse-corps-1944/
description: Painted portrait of a red-haired nurse in a blue cape lined with red and a white cap, looking upward, with a ruined building on the left and a column
section: Collection
---

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[![Nurses are needed now!, 1944 US poster: Painted portrait of a red-haired nurse in a blue cape lined with red and a white cap](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nurses-are-needed-now-savage-army-nurse-corps-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nurses-are-needed-now-savage-army-nurse-corps-1944.jpg)

# Nurses are needed now!

Painted portrait of a red-haired nurse in a blue cape lined with red and a white cap, looking upward, with a ruined building on the left and a column of marching soldiers on the right, above the headline 'Nurses Are Needed Now!' The tells are the heroic pose against a dramatic sky (glittering-generalities) and the soldiers and ruins carrying the war's authority onto the nurse (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Nurses Are Needed Now!
FOR SERVICE IN THE
ARMY NURSE CORPS
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
[signature:] Stuh Savage
[imprint:] P-73—RPB-3-4-44—400M
```

[← Nurses Are Needed Now! Army Nurse Corps](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nurses-are-needed-now-army-nurse-corps-1944/) [Nurses in action →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nurses-in-action-army-nurse-corps-1944/)

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