According to British journalist and author, Ben Macintyre, Carson "was one of the finest war reporters of the twentieth century: resourceful, resilient, witty and astonishingly brave.
[5] In an article for Look magazine, Carson said: “the best break I got in war of preparation for the battle front came … when I was born into a family of outspoken, uninhibited sons.” Fighter pilot Colonel Hubert Zemke recalled how in the Spring of 1944, Carson while visiting the 56th Fighter Group talked a pilot into allowing her board a spotter plane on D-Day.
While, some female nursing units arrived on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, only male reporters were allowed to go due to a Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force article of war regulation.
Carson managed to bypass the restrictions by talking her way into a seat aboard a spotter airplane with an aerial view of the attack.
But my job was to get the news.”[5] Continuing her focus on getting the news, she and another female reporter (unofficially) attached themselves as embedded press corp members traveling with the U.S. Army.
She prevailed on the former prisoners, surprised to see a woman, to take her on a tour of all their secret hiding places in the medieval castle and snapped the only photograph of the "cock" glider, built by inmates over the last year for an escape attempt hidden in the attic.