Women... our wounded need your care! Join a hospital company
Women's Army Corps recruiting poster for hospital work: a uniformed woman carries a covered tray past empty hospital beds beside the headline 'Women... our wounded need your care!'. The wounded are named but not shown; the appeal rests on duty and need (an emotional appeal, with fear-appeal faint).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Medical Department; Women's Army Corps (Recruiting Publicity Bureau)
- 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, Gender and suffrage, Health
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-258 (NAID 513700).
Text on the object
Women . . . our wounded need your care! YOU can help to give it . . . The U. S. Army Medical Department is calling for help - the help of WOMEN - needed in Army hospitals to serve as medical technicians, surgical technicians, and in other important assignments Assignments also available at Army Air Forces, Ground Forces, and Service Forces installations Join a hospital company For information apply at any U. S. Army Recruiting Station or ask your local Postmaster WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS [imprint: P-563-RPB-1-30-45-25M]
