Sea Stories
from
The Bosun's Locker

Frank enlisted in the U.S. Navy one month and four days after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. He saw action in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea and later in the Pacific, as the United States took back the islands of the Pacific from the Japanese.

Frank was back again for what was called a "police action" in Korea by politicians too timid to call it what it really was, which was "war," and was still around for the first two years of the next war that the politicians, in their cowardice, refused to declare. I'm speaking, of course, of Vietnam. Frank retired in 1966 to Gonzales, Louisiana, began writing interesting stories, and enjoyed his retirement until receiving final orders to join the Staff of the Supreme Commander on 9 Feb 2001 at age 79. Frank was laid to rest in Port Hudson National Cemetery in Zachary, Louisiana on 12 Feb 2001.

          Port Hudson National Cemetery
   Digital photo by John S. Perilloux, 1 Apr 2001