Background
Frank, Walter Hale was born on April 23, 1886 in Humphrey, New York, United States. Son of Albert and Agnes (House) Frank.
Frank, Walter Hale was born on April 23, 1886 in Humphrey, New York, United States. Son of Albert and Agnes (House) Frank.
Bachelor of Arts, United States Military Academy, 1910. Graduate Air Corps Engineering School, 1920, Air Corps Tactical School, 1925, Command and General staff schedul, 1926, Army War College, 1931.
Smith (wife of Brooke Empie Allen, United States Air Force). Commissioned 2d literature, June 15, 1910. Promoted through grades to major general, 1941.
Detailed to Aviation Section Signal Corps, 1917.
Commanding officer Ellington Field, 1918. Commanding general 3d Air Force, Tampa, Florida, 1941-1942.
Commanding general 8th Air Force Service Command, London, England., June 23, 1942-November 15, 1942. Commanding general Army Air Forces Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Fairfield, O., November 1942-July 1944.
Member Army Pearl Harbor Board, 1944.
Special assistant commanding general Army Air Forces, November 1944-September 1945. Retired, December 31, 1945. Assistant to president, Sears Western Hemisphere Trading Corporation since 1945.
President, Sears, Roebuck, South America Comercio e Industria (a Brazilian corporation), Rio de Janeiro, 1946-1950.
President Sears Roebuck South America Comercio e Industrial (Argentine Corporation) Buenos Aires, since 1946. Director foreign expansion Sears Roebuck & Company, 1950-1955, Washington representative, since 1954.
Member Army Pearl Harbor Board, 1944. Mason.; Clubs: Army and Navy, Army and Navy Country, National Press (Washington).
Married Hazel M. Smith, June 25, 1913.