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Courtesy of Lieutenant Rodman DeKay, Jr., USNR (Retired), 1979. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. NORTH ISLAND, 1917 On September 25, 1917, Lieutenant Earl W. Spencer, USN, a 29-year-old Naval Aviator, Academy Class of 1910, was ordered to duty in command of Naval Air Station, San Diego.
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. (September 20, 1888 – May 29, 1950) was a pioneering U.S. Navy pilot who served as the first commanding officer of Naval Air Station San Diego. He was the first husband of Wallis Simpson, who later married Edward, Duke of Windsor.
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. was a pioneering U. S. Navy pilot, he was the first husband of Wallis Simpson future wife of the former King Edward VIII. Known as Win, he was born in Kinsley, son of Earl Winfield Spencer Sr. a prominent Chicago stockbroker, the former Agnes Lucy Hughes of Jersey.
Earl Winfield Spencer Jr. ( Kinsley, Kansas; 20 de septiembre de 1888 - Coronado, California; 29 de mayo de 1950) fue un piloto de la Marina de Estados Unidos que sirvió como primer comandante de la Base Aeronaval de North Island en San Diego, California. También fue el primer marido de Wallis Simpson, la mujer por quien dejó el trono ...
Wallis and her first husband, Earl W. Spencer, 1918. In April 1916, Wallis met Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a US Navy aviator, in Pensacola, Florida, while visiting her cousin Corinne Mustin. It was at this time that Wallis witnessed two airplane crashes about two weeks apart, resulting in a lifelong fear of flying.
Earl Spencer died 29 May 1950 in San Diego, California. [1] Obituary: [2] First Husband of Duchess of Windsor Dies. San Diego, Calif., May 29 (AP)--The first husband of the Duchess of Windsor--American beauty for whom a King of England gave up his throne--died here today. He was retired U.S. Navy Capt. Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr.
