As you’ll recall, we’re taking the summer off from recording to have more time to write, to deal with various professional things, and to move to another part of the country (for Meghan).
In this episode for June, we took advantage of Olivia’s parents’ visit to her to record a special Father’s Day episode with her dad, Fred Allison, who is a historian by day and a writer by evenings/weekends. He has published several books and articles about military history. His most recent book is We Were Going to Win, Or Die There, a book based on numerous oral history interviews he did with the Marine Roy H. Elrod. This book has recently won a Marine Corps Heritage award.
We loved talking to him on a range of topics, from the “ugly business” of cutting down the word count, working on too many projects at once, and being brave and quitting your job when you have four kids. And, how to think like a fighter pilot when you’re writing.
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Theme music is “It’s Time” by Scaricá Ricascá.
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In this episode
The Colonel Joseph Alexander Award announcement (Marine Corps Heritage Awards 2018)
WW2 battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan
Dr Charles P Neimeyer (former Director of the Division) – bio
Local (Fredericksburg, VA) press on Roy Elrod
Earlier article by Fred Allison on Roy Elrod in Tarawa
Muleshoe Journal newspaper (link not working as of time of posting, but hopefully fixed soon)