On the job

pro-Lieutenant Stanley G. Walker '36, with a Coast Guard combat cutter, recently saved the crew of a disabled British armed trawler that had been adrift for five weeks in the North Atlantic. The little trawler was discovered in an ice field off Greenland by a PBY patrol bomber manned by Coast Guard flyers. When Lieutenant Walker's cutter reached the trawler it was found that the English sailors had been subsisting on cold rice and had burned all the wooden fittings of their vessel for warmth. The weakness of the survivors and the heavy Northern seas made the work of the rescuers especially difficult and was a large order for quick thinking and acting.

Lieutenant Walker, who tried to enter the Service just after Pearl Harbor, had some trouble in finding a place for "an old lawyer of 28." Accepted by the Coast Guard in 1942, he was given a ninety-day "wonder course," a one- month course on anti-submarine work, and since then, plenty of experience.