Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 13 1/2″ ad that gave the general public an idea what The Airlines of the United States were doing to help the war effort. The ad contains a drawing that shows us two white-haired gentlemen in fatigues looking out of a tent at night, past a soldier on sentry duty, at an airplane that is either taking off or landing. The headline calls this scene “Somewhere West of Suez” and the text explains that these planes were involved in transporting “the greatest gathering of military leaders in history” to a secret council of war, “almost in the enemy’s camp”. It goes on to say that planes are now able to allow global face-to-face meetings between important people to plan actions and to make the supplying of troops entirely possible in a scope never thought of before.
Source: April 5, 1943 Life magazine.
