He worked at NASA at Cape Canaveral, Florida supporting Project Mercury as Chief of the Reports Division.
He and others helped create the Lawson Boating Heritage Center on Chautauqua Lake, Bemus Point, New York.
[2] Several books of the original Helmsman saga, The Siege, The Defenders and The Defiance in particular, were influenced by the World War II autobiography titled The Big Show (written by Pierre Clostermann).
For example, Galactic Convoy mentions a planet named Throon (the capital world in the Star Kings books).
At the time of his death, Bill was working on a novel entitled "Heisenberg's U-Boat" and was starting on a final Wilf Brim book.