Content note: Photograph of a wounded soldier with a first-person account of combat wounds; the text uses the wartime term 'Jap' for Japanese soldiers. This object is shown as it was published. Why
She sure was a welcome sight
Army Nurse Corps recruiting sheet: a large photograph of a wounded soldier, captioned as Private First Class Edward Stietzle of Brooklyn, with his first-person account of being hit in Burma and flown out. Testimonial: a named serviceman's praise of the nurse on his plane carries the appeal 'More nurses are needed'. Headline in quotes: "She sure was a welcome sight . . ."
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, Home front
- 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-1729 (NAID 515400).
Text on the object
"SHE SURE WAS A WELCOME SIGHT . . ." PRIVATE FIRST CLASS EDWARD STIETZLE of Brooklyn, one of Merrill's Marauders "I was a scout on intelligence reconnaissance with Merrill's Marauders. For twelve days the Japs kept us trapped in the jungles of Burma. They had a regiment and we were fighting them with a battalion. It was on the ninth day that I got hit. I was in my fox hole and we were holding back a charge. A Jap machine gunner blasted me from close up. Three bullets went right through my helmet on the left side, but the steel deflected the bullets and they just creased my skull. I was knocked down and I lost my speech temporarily, but I got up again mighty quick and finished off that Jap. Three days later another battalion came up and freed us. They flew me out of Burma. The nurse on that plane - she sure was a welcome sight. I still get terrific headaches. But there's always an Army nurse to give me the 'hypos' that make them bearable." MORE NURSES ARE NEEDED U. S. ARMY NURSE CORPS P-137--RPB--9-7-44--15M
