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title: Serve Those Who Served, Nurses Are Needed in Veterans Administration Hospitals
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/serve-those-who-served-nurses-1945/
description: 'Nurse-recruitment sheet: a convalescent man in a robe sits in a wheelchair, with a battle scene behind him on the left and a nurse tending a patient'
section: Collection
---

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# Serve Those Who Served, Nurses Are Needed in Veterans Administration Hospitals

Nurse-recruitment sheet: a convalescent man in a robe sits in a wheelchair, with a battle scene behind him on the left and a nurse tending a patient on the right. Headline 'Serve Those Who Served'; applicants are told to write to the VA Medical Director or the Civil Service Commission. The poster pairs combat memory with the care that follows.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SERVE THOSE WHO SERVED
Nurses are needed in
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITALS
Write to MEDICAL DIRECTOR, VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, Washington 25, D.C.
or U.S. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington 25, D.C.
[signature: Douglass]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945 O-655862]
```

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