This is from an article about Eliot Noyes, known for his work at IBM, which contains this anecdote:

dinosaurspen: This is from an article about Eliot Noyes, known for his work at IBM, which contains this anecdote:Serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, Noyes was assigned to the Pentagon glider program. (5,500 glider pilots got their wings, of the only 1,000 expected.)Noyes had trouble getting Pentagon brass, who preferred loud guns to silent gliders, to pay attention to the program. Recognizing that military officials read the comic strip “Terry and the Pirates” regularly, he wrote to the cartoonist Milton Caniff, asking him to include gliders in the story.The cartoonist agreed and soon illustrated gliders flying over Japanese-controlled areas. The colonels came to Noyes, newspapers in hand, and asked, “Can we do this?”