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...caught up with Walton only six days out to sea, in the darkness before dawn when a U-boat attacked the Coast Guard cutter on which he was crossing the Atlantic (perhaps you remember his vivid story of the eight-hour battle in which the Spencer finally killed...
Tropical diseases and heat took a heavy toll. Rain turned roads and storage dumps into bogs. But in five months, with 16,000 men working eight-hour shifts around the clock seven days a week, they built a base to supply, repair and maintain a naval fleet on the southern flank of the Japanese Empire...
...University of Illinois last week offered a cold-weather tip: eat more often, change to a fattier diet. At 20 below zero, human guinea pigs, who in an eight-hour period ate three meals high in fats and carbohydrates (starch and sugar) at two-hour intervals, had higher body temperature and better coordination than those who ate one meal rich in protein (e.g., meat...
...with new G.I. dental plates were put cheek by jowl, there would be enough for 15 infantry divisions. (Last year alone, the Army Dental Corps drilled and filled 18,000,000 cavities.) The Dental Corps is still so hard worked that some stations have three eight-hour dental shifts a day and appointments for 4 a.m. are not uncommon...
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...