Zwank, Douglas C., 1947-

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Birth 1947

Biographical notes:

Zwank (b.1947) has long family ties to Madison, Wisconsin. His great-great grandfather, a mason, helped build the State Capitol in the 1880s. Zwank graduated from Edgewood High School and spent a year at the University of Wisconsin before joining the Marine Corps in 1966. On his nineteenth birthday, Zwank arrived in Vietnam, where he served as a Corporal in Bulk Fuel. When his tour ended in 1968, Zwank returned to UW-Madison, where he met his wife. He worked as a narcotics agent for the Division of Criminal Investigation for the State of Wisconsin for eighteen years. In the 1990s, he became a computer systems manager for a federal agency. He now lives in Middleton, Wisconsin.

From the description of Oral history interview with Douglas C. Zwank, [sound recording], 1996. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 426489540

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Subjects:

  • Agent Orange
  • Anti-war demonstrations
  • Drug enforcement agents
  • Marines
  • Marines
  • Marines
  • Military education
  • Napalm
  • Race relations
  • Tet Offensive, 1968
  • Veterans
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Yugoslav War, 1991-1995

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  • Wisconsin--Madison (as recorded)
  • Bosnia and Hercegovina (as recorded)
  • Huế (Vietnam) (as recorded)
  • Grenada (as recorded)
  • Wisconsin (as recorded)