General George Marshall, Time's
Man of the Year, January 3, 1944
Boobies on the Runway
Time Magazine
January 3, 1944
"If we don't hit Ascension
My wife gets a pension."
"So, sing U.S. flyers of the South Atlantic.
"This week the Army officially revealed why. Tiny (34 square miles) Ascension Island, 1,400 miles from the bulge of Brazil, is one of the vital links in the Air Transport Command's world-girldling chain of airfields. Ascension is the dot in the ocean that made it possible to fly Lightning (P-38) single-seated fighters across the South Atlantic to combat fields in North Africa and England.
