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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Army Nurse Corps
- 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, Health, Gender and suffrage
- 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 Nurse Corps. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1728 (NAID 515399).
Text on the object
"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]
