Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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211960

Cpt. Francis Whaley Ewald

United States Navy USS Boise

Unfortunately, my grandfather Frank Ewald died when I was only 5 so I never got to hear any of the tales of his time on the USS Boise. It says on some papers I found that his primary duty was Student A.A. Control Officer and in remarks it says Deck Division Officer. I am not sure what that means or what he did exactly. I would love to know more. He was on the USS Boise from Sept. 44 through Oct. 45 for the Battle of Leyte. He did continue on in the Navy and eventually became a Captain. He was accepted and graduated from flight school. He went on to become a flight instructor in Norfolk, and then a test pilot in Maryland. Eventually, he was Commander of the Naval Air Development Center in Johnsonville, PA. He retired about a year before he died at Bethesda. I would love to learn more about his time in the Navy if anyone recognizes him and wants to contact me.



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