Name Walbrook Swank | Role Author | |
Books Confederate war stories - 1861‑1865, Civil War Stories: Letters - M, My WWII Diary and the War E, Old Abe's jokes, Battle of Trevilian Station: T | ||
Walbrook D. Swank Walbrook "Wally" Davis Swank (November 20, 1910 - May 4, 2008) was a World War II officer and a noted historical author.
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Walbrook Swank was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was a graduate of Ohio State University and a life member of the OSU Alumni Association, and a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
World War II service
Col. Swank received numerous awards for meritorious and outstanding service with the United States Air Force during World War II and the Korean War, and a Distinguished Service Citation from the Secretary of the Treasury.
Postwar activities
After the war, Colonel Swank served on the War Department Personnel Research Council and as a member of the board of directors for the Army and Air Force Civilian Welfare Fund for 19 years. Col. Swank "...was a member of the Federal Personnel Councils of Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco, Calif., and Anchorage, Alaska." Colonel Swank was the personnel officer on the staffs of the commanding generals of the Air Material Command and Seventeenth Air Force Service Command, Pacific Overseas Air Technical Service Command and the Alaskan Air Command.
Author
Col. Swank was an author of numerous Civil War stories and authored 17 books, several of them relating to historical events, activities and people of Louisa County, Virginia. Colonel Swank also wrote about Abraham Lincoln's sense of humor, and incidents concerning Ulysses S. Grant. He also produced four books on the history of World War II.
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Colonel Swank died on May 6, 2008, and is interred at Bethphage Christian Church, Frederick's Hall, Virginia.
The "Colonel Walbrook D. Swank Collection" of the Louisa County Public Library is named in his honor.