Air Force bomber takes off from Wideawake Field, 1943. Air Force photo.
The Birmingham News
"Birds on Ascension Island Were Comical, But Not to the Army"
"Birds on Ascension Island Were Comical, But Not to the Army"
"Professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, Louis N. Ridenour served during the war on the staff of the radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
by Louis N. Ridenour
NEW YORK, Feb. 4--(NANA)--"I have this story from a friend of mine who is a practicing ornithologist. He was called in as a bird expert, at a time when the Army Air Forces found themselves at their wits' end--all on account of the habits of birds, and the love of a mother bird for her egg.
