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Said hustling, optimistic Sidney G. Walton, 42, vice president and secretary of the Matson lines: "We're not trying to keep out competition. We are not interested in it. This is a modernization program. We changed from sail to steam, didn...
...that flight, Technical Sergeant Art Layfield later told TIME Correspondent William Walton: "When we hit the German coast they were throwing everything in the German Air Force at us. Some thing knocked out half our ship's oxygen system, the half on the pilot's side. Then a bullet tore through the nose. Such a blast of air came in that both pilot and co-pilot began to freeze. One was barehanded, the other had only light dress gloves, and we were above 20,000 feet. Within a couple of minutes the ball-turret gunner had shot down...
From a bomber base of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, TIME Correspondent William Walton last week sent this description of the weather-bound bomber crews. What he saw on this U.S. airdrome was duplicated on the airfields of the R.A.F.'s big night bombers. There, too, the pilots and crews were killing time in barracks and canteens, while outside the big, black Stirlings and Lancasters gleamed wet on the runways. Over the Dover Strait, on the route to Germany, the fog lay thick and grey. At 10,000 feet, the operational altitude for the big planes...
...William Walton was the only newsman aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer when she sank that German U-boat (TIME, June 7), so today the Battle of the Atlantic has a very personal meaning for him. (He has now landed safely in Britain to work with the American Eighth Air Force there...
...General Quarters routed officers & men of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Spencer from their bunks to battle stations. In the distance a huge Atlantic convoy, Europe-bound, was silhouetted in a streak of silvery light. Somewhere in darkness was an enemy submarine. Aboard the Spencer was TIME Correspondent William Walton, whose account of what followed was released by the Navy this week: The seconds dragging by seemed an age. "Jesus, why don't we do something?" muttered a gunner's mate. Nothing but dark waves could be seen ahead. The tension grew. A man with headphones relayed...