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...Erla Camp, the SS guards prepared to massacre the prisoners as the U.S. Army approached. The prisoners knew what was coming, but most of them were too weak to try to escape, though a Czech, prisoner had short-circuited the electric fence. From Erla, TIME Correspondent Bill Walton reported the atrocity as pieced together 'from the stories of the few survivors...
...Walton was finally rescued from the pear tree, but for the next three days he was under constant fire-never had his boots off, got only three hours sleep in 72. Once he had to plunge through a swamp, wade away from the enemy with machine-gun bullets pinging all around him. But all during those hours he somehow managed to hang on to his typewriter...
...before Rundstedt's counterattack in the Ardennes, Walton left the First Army to head for Christmas at home, and "it seemed queer to find myself leaving the front actually alive and unhurt after so many days when I woke up in the morning wondering if I would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton...
...Walton will spend the next few weeks in Jacksonville, Illinois, resting up and getting reacquainted with his wife Emily Ann and the two children he hasn't seen in almost two years. But come March he hopes to be back in uniform and off to the Western Front again...
...British music to Americans, just as he has introduced it to Australians, New Zealanders, Swedes, Palestinian Jews and British war workers. Pleased to find U.S. familiarity with the works of Sir Edward Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance), he hopes to whet a U.S. appetite for Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, William Walton and John Ireland...