{"id":861,"date":"2014-09-30T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=861"},"modified":"2017-08-08T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:07:28","slug":"brown-wallace-lamar-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"BROWN, WALLACE LAMAR, 1926-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Military officer; design engineer. Born&#8211; September 21, 1926, Banks. Parents&#8211;William Lewis and Nancy Bama Henderson Brown. Married&#8211; Bobby Jean Green. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Troy High School, 1944. University of Oklahoma, Masters degree in engineering, 1964.\u00a0 Served in U.S. Army, 1944-46; linesman for United Telephone and Telegraph, Brundidge, 1947-50; Commissioned in U.S. Air Force, June, 1950; served as B-59 pilot and was shot down over North Korea, January 13, 1953; spent the next 32 months in Chinese prisons.\u00a0Rose in rank to major; retired in 1968.\u00a0\u00a0Chief Engineer, Metric Systems Corporation,\u00a0 Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 1969-80; in private practice in Guntersville after 1980. Published articles in professional journals. Member Air Commando Association; Retired Officers Association; Reserve Officers Association.\u00a0 Awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Prisoner of War Medal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Public Library Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Endless Hours. New York; Norton, 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Military officer; design engineer. Born&#8211; September 21, 1926, Banks. Parents&#8211;William Lewis and Nancy Bama Henderson Brown. Married&#8211; Bobby Jean Green. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Troy High School, 1944. University of Oklahoma, Masters degree in engineering, 1964.\u00a0 Served in U.S. Army, 1944-46; linesman for United Telephone and Telegraph, Brundidge, 1947-50; Commissioned in U.S. Air Force, June, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}