--- title: Recreation and Athletics url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/recreation-and-athletics-special-service-1943/ description: 'Wall chart in red and black with a dozen small photographs and pictured manuals: volleyball, a soldier play, outdoor film screenings, USO singers.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Recreation and Athletics [![Recreation and Athletics, 1943 US poster: Wall chart in red and black with a dozen small photographs and pictured manuals](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/recreation-and-athletics-special-service-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/recreation-and-athletics-special-service-1943.jpg) # Recreation and Athletics Wall chart in red and black with a dozen small photographs and pictured manuals: volleyball, a soldier play, outdoor film screenings, USO singers, Red Cross interviews, mess halls, song books. Text blocks list what Special Service provides for troops. The technique is faint: it lists only services provided, a mild card-stack of one side of the record. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` RECREATION and ATHLETICS ATHLETICS Special Service issues athletic equipment through Service Commands and in kits for overseas troops. It also provides training manuals and instructional materials on athletics and physical conditioning. Supplies for games, whether simple or requiring full equipment, are provided by Special Service. Publications and materials are issued to help produce good soldier plays, such as "The Women", illustrated above. Army Motion Picture Service operates 800 theaters for soldiers in the U.S.A. and distributes films to troops abroad. The routing of USO, Camp Shows, Inc., and other soldier entertainment is a responsibility of Special Service. Men come to the Red Cross directors with personal problems relating to themselves and their families. WELFARE Liaison with civilian organizations, such as Red Cross and USO, is through Special Service. It issues regulations directing welfare and other allied services. FACILITIES Special Service designs, furnishes and equips buildings such as libraries, theaters, Service Clubs, and Guest Houses. It also supplies funds and issues regulations for control of hostesses and librarians. MUSIC Special Service Officers, assisted by trained Music Officers, provide plans and materials for developing musical activities including training song leaders, organizing and training orchestras and bands. [Pictured document and book covers, partly legible: "TM 21-220 War Department Technical Manual Sports and Games"; "Care and Maintenance of Athletic Equipment"; "At Ease" Volume I Comedy Sketches; "At Ease" Volume II Minstrel Shows; Music and Lyrics for Musical Comedies and Revues, being "At Ease" Volume III, USO-Camp Shows, Inc., 1943; War Department, Personal Affairs of Military Personnel and Aid for Their Dependents, January 1943; Army Hit Kit; Army Song Book; A List of Choral Music; Pocket Guide for the U.S. Army Song Leader; GUEST HOUSE (sign)] [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, remainder illegible] ``` [← Recreation and Athletics (partial, color slide)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/recreation-and-athletics-partial-slide-special-service-1943/) [Red Cross Volunteer Nurse's Aide →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/red-cross-volunteer-nurses-aide-1943/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.