“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.”
Date: 1944
Poster number: P-141--RPB--9-9-44--15M
Dimensions: 19 x 25 inches
Agency: U.S. Army Nurse Corps
Publisher: United States Army Recruiting Publicity Bureau
Note: Caption from Sergeant Hampton Scofield, Airborne infantryman
Location: Box 2
Citation: D'Ann Campbell Army Nurse Corps Recruitment Poster Collection (MC26),
Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History, Foundation of New York State Nurses, Guilderland, NY
Date: 1944
Poster number: P-141--RPB--9-9-44--15M
Dimensions: 19 x 25 inches
Agency: U.S. Army Nurse Corps
Publisher: United States Army Recruiting Publicity Bureau
Note: Caption from Sergeant Hampton Scofield, Airborne infantryman
Location: Box 2
Citation: D'Ann Campbell Army Nurse Corps Recruitment Poster Collection (MC26),
Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History, Foundation of New York State Nurses, Guilderland, NY