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Bataan

24 Sep 2020

Of Biography and Heroes

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

I wrote a tenth grade English research paper on Douglas MacArthur. For whatever reason–most likely the limitations of my sources (source!) or the limitations of my reading of same–I focused primarily on his actions in Korea. I remember writing about … Continued

Bataan, Corregidor, Korean War, MacArthur, Pacific War, Philippines, Romulo, Truman, 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
19 Nov 2019

Getting the Story Out

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

In 1941, Clark Lee was a reporter for the AP based in Shanghai, where “for more than four years,” he wrote, the city “had been living practically in state of siege, with bombs, bullets, and barbed wire for its daily … Continued

Bataan, Clark Lee, Corregidor, MacArthur, Philippines, WWII

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