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title: I'll never forget her...
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ill-never-forget-her-army-nurse-corps-1944/
description: 'Army Nurse Corps recruiting sheet: a photograph of a wounded combat engineer, both arms in plaster, with a first-person account of Normandy'
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Photograph of a wounded soldier with both arms in plaster and a first-person account of combat injuries. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![I'll never forget her..., 1944 US poster: Army Nurse Corps recruiting sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ill-never-forget-her-army-nurse-corps-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ill-never-forget-her-army-nurse-corps-1944.jpg)

# I'll never forget her...

Army Nurse Corps recruiting sheet: a photograph of a wounded combat engineer, both arms in plaster, with a first-person account of Normandy and of the nurse who tended him. A named soldier's own words carry the appeal (testimonial); the sheet closes 'More nurses are needed'. Headline: "I'll never forget her..."

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
"I'LL NEVER FORGET HER..."
TECHNICIAN FIFTH GRADE ALFRED J. TETT, combat engineer from North Bergen, New Jersey
"I went ashore at Normandy on D Day plus one with a combat engineer squad. We had built one bridge, repaired another, and were heading toward a third job when the Jerries 'zeroed' us in. I had fourteen men in my truck. A couple of them were killed and a couple of others wounded. I was just crawling under the truck for cover when I got it from a 'tree burst' - that's a shell that bursts at treetop level. The concussion blew me under the truck and right out the other side. A shell fragment went through my right arm and I lost a finger from my left hand. At an evacuation hospital an Army nurse cleaned me up, stood by me until I was operated on. I'll never forget her. I remember the boys cheered like mad when they saw the first Army nurses hit the beach at Normandy. They knew, then, that if they were hit they'd be taken care of right."
MORE NURSES ARE NEEDED
U. S. ARMY NURSE CORPS
[imprint: P-143-RPB-9-9-44-15M]
```

[← If you want to fly](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-you-want-to-fly-1944/) ["I'm in this war too!" Women's Army Corps →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/im-in-this-war-too-wac-1944/)

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