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Frank Woolner - A Biographical sketch
ABOVE: Frank Woolner (left) of Shrewsbury, MA, in 1973 with TV sports
personality Curt Gowdy discussing striped bass fishing tackle on Cape
Cod during the filming of the ABC-TV American Sportsman Show.
(Photo from 3rd Armored Div. Association files)
FRANK WOOLNER
- A Biographic Sketch -
In World War II, Woolner saw frontline combat action during 1944 as a reconnaissance sergeant with the 703rd Tank Destroyer Bn of the 3rd Armored Division (3AD) through France and Belgium. He also served as the Battalion's chief writer for press & historical purposes, as he had during 1942-44 during the 703rd's training in the States and England.
On Sept. 13, 1944, the day after the 3AD first entered wartime Germany, Woolner was promoted to the Division Headquarters G-2 Section (intelligence & public affairs). There, he went to work for Lt. Col. Andrew Barr and Major Haynes Dugan as, in his own words, a war correspondent, junior grade historian, observer, and a scribbler of things world shaking.
When the war ended in May, 1945, Sgt. Woolner stayed in occupied Germany with a headquarters production staff to research and publish the 3AD history chronicle "Spearhead in the West." Woolner was the author of the main narrative of the book, which would become a military classic and is a collector's item today. He returned to the States in the fall of 1945.
In civilian life, Woolner, born in 1916 and a native New Englander from Shrewsbury, Mass., would eventually became a nationally recognized expert on ocean and fresh-water sport fishing. He was also an authority on hunting, natural history, and conservation in New England. Woolner was a newspaper columnist; the Editor of Salt Water Sportsman Magazine of Boston for over twenty years; and wrote or co-wrote seven books on fishing and hunting. He also co-hosted a weekly TV show in the Boston area for a number of years with his brother Jack called "Woolner Brothers Outdoors."
Books by Frank Woolner
(all post-WWII) Spearhead in the West (with Maj. Murray H. Fowler) My New England Modern Saltwater Sport Fishing Grouse Hunting Tackle Talk (with Henry Lyman) The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing (with Henry Lyman) The Complete Book of Weakfishing (with Henry Lyman) The Sportsman's Companion (with Henry Lyman, E. C. Janes, and Clyde Ormond)
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