Save his life... and find your own. Be a nurse
Nurse-recruitment poster: a colour photograph of a uniformed nurse looking down at a wounded man in a hospital bed, under the headline 'Save his life... and find your own', with 'Be a nurse' and an address to write to. It joins a personal-fulfilment promise to the image of a patient in need.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (for student nurse recruitment)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, 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)
Office of War Information (for student nurse recruitment). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-365 (NAID 513815).
Text on the object
Save his life... and find your own BE A NURSE WRITE TO STUDENT NURSES, 1790 BROADWAY, N. Y. C. OWI Poster No. 49. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—514971
