FRANK M. L. DAVIS, LCDR, USN
Frank Davis '42
Lucky Bag
From the 1942 Lucky Bag:
FRANK McDOWELL LEAVITT DAVIS
Annapolis, Maryland
Frank, F.M.L., Leavitt
He spouts Shakespeare, voluble French, nonsense after taps. He plays a mandolin, piano, soccer, chess. He works on sonatas, Masqueraders, Lucky Bag, Log, victims for the Book-of-the-Month Club. He has the world's sleepiest countenance at reveille, a weakness for the funnies, an appreciation of any joke!—good or bad. Summary: in the vernacular, he's a noble lad.
Soccer, aNf*, Fencing, f42t; Log 4; Lucky Bag; Chess Club 4, 3, 2, 1, President; Mandolin Club 4, 3, 2, 1; Masqueraders 4, 3, 2, 1, President; Choir 4, 3, 2, 1; Star 4; 1 Stripe.
The Class of 1942 graduated on December 19, 1941, less than two weeks after the United States entered World War II. The class had previously been scheduled to graduate in February 1942.
FRANK McDOWELL LEAVITT DAVIS
Annapolis, Maryland
Frank, F.M.L., Leavitt
He spouts Shakespeare, voluble French, nonsense after taps. He plays a mandolin, piano, soccer, chess. He works on sonatas, Masqueraders, Lucky Bag, Log, victims for the Book-of-the-Month Club. He has the world's sleepiest countenance at reveille, a weakness for the funnies, an appreciation of any joke!—good or bad. Summary: in the vernacular, he's a noble lad.
Soccer, aNf*, Fencing, f42t; Log 4; Lucky Bag; Chess Club 4, 3, 2, 1, President; Mandolin Club 4, 3, 2, 1; Masqueraders 4, 3, 2, 1, President; Choir 4, 3, 2, 1; Star 4; 1 Stripe.
The Class of 1942 graduated on December 19, 1941, less than two weeks after the United States entered World War II. The class had previously been scheduled to graduate in February 1942.
Loss
From Wikipedia:
Lieut. Commander Davis later commanded a Naval torpedo bombing plane squadron in World War II, and perished while on duty in a Navy plane crash off Malta in 1946.
Unable to find any further details.
Other Information
Frank was named in honor of Frank McDowell Leavitt, who was instrumental in the creation of the modern torpedo.
From researcher Kathy Franz:
In 1935, Frank lived in Windsor, Connecticut. His brothers were Ralph and Otis.
No next of kin was listed, but he was survived by his father (who retired a Vice Admiral). His mother died in 1921.
He has a memory marker in the Naval Academy Cemetery; he is also listed in the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial.
Photographs
From the Lucky Bag
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