Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explosion. He pulled on his britches and ran for the street. Said he: "My first thought was an enemy plane. Then I thought, why in heck. . . ? After I saw how deep the bombs bored into the pavement, I was glad I hadn't hid under that big paper cutter at the office...
...present Presidential yacht Potomac is a converted Coast Guard cutter of the 165-ft. Icarus type...
...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...
...morning last month, the raucous bell-and-siren summons to 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...
...Spencer. On the ship's bulletin board appeared a message from the Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches, Admiral Sir Max Kennedy Horton, R.N., addressed to the officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer...