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title: She stood by me for hours
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/she-stood-by-me-for-hours-army-nurse-corps-1944/
description: Photograph of a shirtless wounded paratrooper in a hospital bed with a traction rig, a nurse's profile in the corner.
section: Collection
---

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[![She stood by me for hours, 1944 US poster: Photograph of a shirtless wounded paratrooper in a hospital bed with a traction](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/she-stood-by-me-for-hours-army-nurse-corps-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/she-stood-by-me-for-hours-army-nurse-corps-1944.jpg)

# She stood by me for hours

Photograph of a shirtless wounded paratrooper in a hospital bed with a traction rig, a nurse's profile in the corner, and the headline 'She stood by me for hours'. A first-person quotation from Sergeant Hampton Scofield recounts the D-Day drop and his care. The named soldier's testimonial carries the appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"SHE STOOD BY ME FOR HOURS"
SERGEANT HAMPTON SCOFIELD, air-borne infantryman from Cold Spring, New York
"I dropped on France at H Hour minus five. That's five hours before the troops hit the beaches on D Day. On the plane going over they gave us mimeographed sheets telling us, 'the eyes of the world are on you.' But mostly we were wondering how many German eyes were on us as we came in over Carentan at 700 feet. As we stood up to jump, the tracers started coming through the sides of the plane and through the windows. There was heavy mortar and machine-gun fire and sniping. I got mine nine days later, storming a machine-gun nest. A sniper put bullets through both my legs. I was carried first to an evacuation hospital, then to a station hospital in England. A nurse gave me my first bath in two weeks and watched over me like I was a baby. She stood by me for twelve hours and it will be a long time before I forget her."
MORE NURSES ARE NEEDED
U. S. ARMY NURSE CORPS
[imprint: P-141-RPB-9-9-44-15M]
```

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