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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Veterans Administration and U.S. Civil Service Commission (artist Douglass)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Health, War and the military
- 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)
Veterans Administration and U.S. Civil Service Commission. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1705 (NAID 515376).
Text on the object
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]
