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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Army Nurse Corps (artist Stuh Savage)
- 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, Gender and suffrage
- 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, Army Nurse Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1431 (NAID 515094).
Text on the object
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
