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Monthly Archives: August 2020

28 Aug 2020

Guerrilla Wife

by Andrew Speno | posted in: WWII, WWII: Pacific Theater | 0

Guerra = “war” in Spanish. Guerrilla = “little war.” In English, guerilla more often means a fighter in one of those little wars. Louise Spencer’s husband, an engineer for an American mining company in the Philippines, became guerilla fighter. That’s … Continued

guerrilla, Pacific War, Philippines, resistance, WWII
20 Aug 2020

Context Matters: Why I Read Broadly

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Eddie Rickenbacker, WWII, WWII: Pacific Theater | 0

The Many Lives of Eddie Rickenbacker is coming out in two months. Just last month I completed and approved the final changes to the manuscript. Near the end of the process I panicked about this sentence: “[Rickenbacker] visited the island … Continued

Bataan, Eddie Rickenbacker, Guadalcanal, Ian Toll, MacArthur, Pacific War, WWII

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