The 38th Engineers play baseball on Ascension Island, 1943. That's my father, swinging for the "fence" on that desolate ball field. American soldiers played baseball all over the world during WW II. The Red Cross often supplied the gear.
Ascension Island
November 28, 1943
"Dear Mother & Dad,
The lid is off! I can say where I am now and also I can describe the place.
We are in the heart of the "trade winds" which makes the climate so perfect. If it weren't for the wind we would really swelter. The eternal unvarying strong wind sometimes gets on our nerves but it is a boon anyhow.
