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Omar Bradley, Walton with the paratroopers, Ragsdale on an American warship, British-born Dennis Scanlan on a British destroyer; White was attached to Montgomery's headquarters; Jack Belden was assigned to the American landing forces near Carentan; and Mary Welsh was flying around the airfields in Britain talking to returning flyers...
...night before D-Day, few of the paratrooper comrades of TIME Correspondent William Walton tried to sleep. After midnight they turned out, climbed into EUR-475. They were the spear head; some of them would not live to see that day's dawn. Walton, a qualified parachutist attached to the outfit, crawled in with them, was soon over France. He cabled...
This is William Walton, our paratroop expert and correspondent on special assignment to cover the war in the air. He crossed to England on the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, and you may remember his vivid story of how the Spencer Davey Jonesed a U-boat in an eight-hour battle...
From London, TIME Correspondent William Walton cabled this impression of pre-invasion Britain...
Many of the 34 people in our London office spent the day in bed getting over the flu that is epidemic there-or else resting up to fight it off. But Bill Walton helped a group of our flyers give a Christmas Eve party for 40 British orphans, and next morning he was up before the bugler going from Nissen hut to Nissen hut stuffing presents in the stockings of sleeping soldiers...