Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class (MM3c) · 62nd Naval Construction Battalion · Company B, Platoon Six
Service Number 627 36 80 • Active 1942 – 1945 · Naval Reserve to 1959
Born
May 20, 1922
Hometown
West Union, Illinois
Enlisted
Oct 19, 1942
Branch
Navy · Seabees
Theater
Pacific · Iwo Jima
Final rate
MM3c
Discharged
Oct 30, 1945
This is the reconstructed wartime service of Frank McCammon Jr. — from a farm boy in West Union, Illinois, through Seabee boot camp in Rhode Island, across the Pacific for nineteen months on Oahu, and into the fight on Iwo Jima with the 62nd Naval Construction Battalion. His separation record is now in hand from NARA St. Louis, and the timeline has been rebuilt record-by-record from the Navy’s muster rolls of ships and stations, found by his service number, 627 36 80, plus the battalion cruise book and unit histories.
West Union, Ill. & Gary, Ind. → Camp Endicott, R.I. → Port Hueneme, Calif. → Oahu · Pearl Harbor · Red Hill → Maui → Iwo Jima → home
Map of Service
From the Illinois–Indiana line, east to Seabee boot camp in Rhode Island, west to
California, and across the Pacific to Oahu, Maui, and the black sands of Iwo Jima — and home again.
The numbered stops match the timeline below. Coastlines drawn from Natural Earth.
1West Union, Ill. & Gary, Ind. Home & enlistment — 1922 / Oct 1942
2Camp Endicott, Davisville, R.I. Seabee boot camp; 62nd NCB formed — Dec 1942
4Oahu, T.H. Pearl Harbor / Red Hill / Aiea — ~19 months
5Maui, T.H. Pre-invasion staging — Nov 1944
6Iwo Jima Landed with the 62nd NCB — 24 Feb 1945
⚓ Homeward — Oct 1945 ⚓
Service Timeline
Family record
May 20, 1922
Born in Sullivan, Indiana
Frank McCammon Jr. is born in Sullivan, Sullivan County, Indiana, son of Frank N. McCammon and Sylvia V. Huff. The family later moved to West Union, Clark County, Illinois.
Farm hand, then a Terre Haute contractor’s truck driver — why a Seabee
On his draft card, Frank was working for his father on the family farm at R.R. 1, West Union, Illinois — “Frank McCammon until July 9” — and wrote “will find work in Gary” (his older brother Ancel was already living there). What he actually did, per his separation record, was drive a truck for Eshlinger & Misch, Contractors, of Terre Haute, Indiana, from July to October 1942 — and his hometown paper confirmed it at the time: “Frank McCammon … [has] defense work in Terre Haute” (14 Aug 1942). That farm-plus-construction mechanical background is the profile the Seabees recruited, and the likely root of his later Machinist’s Mate rating.
Frank’s WWII draft card — farm work for his father “until July 9,” then “will find work in Gary.”
A 14 October hometown-paper notice had listed Frank among thirty Clark County men scheduled to be delivered on 21 October, while noting that several had already enlisted. Frank instead enlists in the U.S. Naval Reserve (V-6) at Indianapolis on 19 October. His muster-roll line carries this enlistment date and place on every quarterly roll thereafter, under service number 627 36 80.
Source: Clark County Democrat, 14 Oct 1942, p. 1; 62nd NCB muster rolls, NARA RG 24 [S16, S3]
Family record
November 26, 1942
Marries Irma Gale Ruckman
About five weeks after enlisting, Frank marries Irma Gale Ruckman of Hutsonville (b. 1924, d. 2009) at the home of Marion Collier in West Union. The Hutsonville paper’s write-up names the wedding party: maid of honor Dora Jean Ruckman, the bride’s sister; best man A. S. “Billy” Collier, U.S.N.; Rev. Harry Lay officiating — and adds that the newlyweds were visiting friends “for a few days before he leaves for service in the Navy.” (The Marshall-side license notices misprinted the bride’s surname as “Buckman”; her family’s hometown paper and both later obituaries prove Ruckman.)
The wedding write-up — “Miss Irma Gale Ruckman and Frank McCammon Jr. were united in marriage…” Hutsonville Herald, 11 December 1942.Marriage-license notice, Clark County Democrat, 2 December 1942 (surname misprinted “Buckman”).
Source: Hutsonville Herald, 11 Dec 1942, p. 2; Clark County Democrat, 2 Dec 1942, p. 1; Marshall Herald, 27 Nov 1942, p. 5; gravestone [S22, S16, S8]
Confirmed — Service Record
December 5, 1942
Active service begins — then boot camp at Davisville
Frank enters active service at Terre Haute, Indiana on 5 December 1942, then travels by troop train (“Boot Camp-bound trains”) to the Naval Construction Training Center at Camp Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Island — the Seabees’ boot camp — where the 62nd Naval Construction Battalion was formed.
Source: NAVPERS-553 Notice of Separation (+1947 correction); battalion cruise book “We Did” (1946) [S13, S1]
Confirmed — Cruise Book
December 30, 1942
62nd NCB commissioned — Company B, Platoon Six
The 62nd Naval Construction Battalion is commissioned at Davisville; Frank is received aboard and assigned to Company B, Platoon Six, rate Sea2c. He appears in the platoon’s group photograph in the battalion cruise book — top row.
Company B, Platoon Six, 62nd NCB — Frank McCammon is in the top row (cruise book, p. 23).The cruise-book roster: “McCAMMON, Frank, Jr., (n), MM3c, West Union, Ill.” (p. 193).
Source: Cruise book “We Did” (1946), Company B / Platoon Six photo, p. 23; roster p. 193 [S1]
Confirmed — Cruise Book
February 25 – March 29, 1943
Davisville → Hueneme → Oahu aboard Matsonia
The 62nd completes advanced combat/construction training and leaves Davisville on 25 February, reaches Port Hueneme, California, 27 February, and leaves for San Francisco on 22 March. The battalion embarks in SS Matsonia on 24 March and arrives at Pearl Harbor on 29 March 1943.
Source: NHHC 62nd NCB unit history, chronology; cruise book “We Did”, chronology and voyage narrative [S4, S1]
Context / in progress
March 29 – October 1, 1943
Aiea and Pearl Harbor — the 62nd takes over contractor work
At Aiea, the 62nd became the first construction battalion to take over Pearl Harbor work from civilian contractors. Its Oahu program included the Submarine Base extension, ship-repair facilities, barracks, mess halls and galleys. On 17 May 1943, selected 62nd personnel formed the new 8th Naval Construction Regiment, which coordinated the 62nd, 72nd and 76th battalions; Frank remained on the 62nd rolls. This describes Frank’s battalion; no surviving record assigns him to one particular job.
Source: Cruise book “We Did”; 8th NCR cruise book, regimental history, p. 9 [S1]
Confirmed — Navy Muster Roll
June 30, 1943
On the muster roll — service number confirmed
The quarter-ending muster roll of the 62nd NCB carries Frank’s line in full: “McCAMMON, Frank Jr. (none), Sea2c, 627 36 80, enlisted 19 Oct 1942, received aboard 30 Dec 1942.” This is the roll that first confirmed his service number.
Frank’s line on the 30 June 1943 muster roll — Sea2c, SN 627 36 80.
Source: 62nd NCB muster roll, qtr ending 30 Jun 1943, p. 17 (NARA RG 24) [S3]
Confirmed — Navy Muster Roll
September 30, 1943
Oahu — still Sea2c
On the quarter-ending muster roll (page 16), Frank is rated Sea2c, his Mc-neighbors McCall, McCarron, McKay and McCrank listed right around him — the same cohort seen in the cruise-book platoon.
Muster roll of the crew, 62nd NCB, quarter ending 30 Sept 1943 — McCammon, Sea2c.
The battalion moves from Aiea to Red Hill on 1 October 1943. During its Oahu tour the 62nd completes Waipio Point amphibious repair facilities, priority housing and shops at the Advance Base Reshipment Depot, Iroquois Point, warehouses, roads and an asphalt plant, and dismantles and re-erects large oil-storage tanks. These are unit-level assignments, not proof of Frank’s individual work detail.
Source: NHHC 62nd NCB unit history; cruise book “We Did”, Pearl Harbor projects chapter [S4, S1, S6]
Confirmed — Navy Muster Roll
December 1, 1943
Advanced to Seaman 1st Class
Frank is advanced from Sea2c to Sea1c, authority BuPers Ltr Pers-67-Ly. The change is on his own Report-of-Changes line, two months after several platoon-mates in the October batch; the 31 Dec roster then carries him as Sea1c.
Report of Changes, month ending 31 Dec 1943 — McCammon advanced to Sea1c, 1 Dec 1943.31 December 1943 quarterly roll — McCammon now rated Sea1c.
Source: 62nd NCB Report of Changes, month ending 31 Dec 1943, p. 62 (image 00245); quarterly roll p. 18 [S3]
Family record
June 1944
“Call From Hawaii” — a telephone call home
The hometown paper’s News Of Our Boys In Service column reports: “Mrs. Frank McCammon Jr., of Hutsonville received a telephone call from her husband stationed in Hawaii. He said he was all right and getting along nicely.” A rare personal wartime record of Frank — placing him in Hawaii mid-1944, exactly where the 62nd’s muster rolls have him, and showing Irma living in Hutsonville during the war.
“Call From Hawaii” — Robinson Daily News, 27 June 1944.
Source: Robinson Daily News, 27 Jun 1944, p. 3 [S22]
Confirmed — Navy Muster Roll
August 28, 1944
Battalion-wide re-rating to Sea1c(CB)
A Report of Changes shows a battalion-wide administrative action (BuPers Ltr Pers-67-Bt) adding the “(CB)” Construction-Battalion designation — Frank “To Sea1c(CB).” It is not a promotion (many men got same-day changes, some even “To Sea2c”); it also prints his enlistment place, Indianapolis.
Report of Changes, Aug 1944 — McCammon “To Sea1c(CB),” enlistment place Indianapolis.
Source: 62nd NCB Report of Changes, month ending 31 Aug 1944, p. 23 (image 00442) [S3]
Iwo Jima · Pacific
September – December 1944
Jungle and amphibious training for the Iwo operation
As the Oahu jobs close, the battalion undertakes about two weeks of jungle training at Sweetheart Valley, Oahu. It secures Red Hill and moves to Maui on 30 October, where it reports to V Amphibious Corps and trains at the 10th Amphibious Tractor camp: physical conditioning, Marine instruction, rifle and automatic weapons, mock debarkations and amphibious landings. The 3rd Platoon, 2nd Bomb Disposal Company is attached to the 62nd.
Source: Cruise book “We Did”; NHHC unit history; V Amphibious Corps Iwo Jima AAR, Annex D, pp. 3, 7 [S1, S4, S15]
Confirmed — Navy Muster Roll
December 31, 1944
Oahu → Maui, staging for Iwo — still Sea1c
On the year-end muster roll (page 20) Frank is still Sea1c. The battalion is moving from Oahu to Maui to stage for Iwo Jima; the majority board USS Lenawee (APA-195) on Christmas Day 1944. Lenawee’s own Iwo Jima action report later lists the 62nd Construction Battalion aboard: 10 officers, 546 enlisted, embarked at Kahului on 25 December 1944. That confirms the unit-level transport, not Frank’s personal berth.
31 December 1944 — McCammon, Sea1c, as the battalion stages for Iwo Jima.USS Lenawee action report — 62nd Construction Battalion aboard, 10 officers and 546 enlisted.
Source: 62nd NCB muster roll, qtr ending 31 Dec 1944, p. 20; USS Lenawee action report, NAID 139927891, p. 7 [S3, S14]
Iwo Jima · Pacific
January 12 – February 19, 1945
Three ship groups converge off Iwo Jima
The 62nd’s remaining echelons depart between 12 January and 1 February. After a five-day Saipan layover, the task force sails on 16 February and reaches Iwo on D-Day, 19 February. The men wait offshore aboard USS Lenawee (APA-195), LST-884 and LST-943 while casualties are brought back to the transports and kamikaze attacks strike nearby ships. Frank’s exact ship within the three-vessel unit group remains unproved.
Source: Cruise book “We Did”, pp. 112–119; NHHC 62nd NCB unit history; USS Lenawee AAR [S1, S4, S14]
Iwo Jima · Pacific
February 24–26, 1945
Iwo Jima — the 62nd lands in echelons and begins Airfield No. 1
LST-884 beaches on D+5, 24 February, at 2200; LST-943 begins unloading the next morning; the Lenawee group transfers to an LST and is fully ashore by 0200 on D+7, 26 February. The unit record says the battalion debarked from APA-195 on 26 February and began work on Airfield No. 1. The separate landing times explain why sources variously describe the 62nd as landing D+5, D+6, or D+7.
62nd NCB Seabees at work on Iwo Jima’s second airstrip, 22 March 1945 (Building the Navy’s Bases).
Source: Cruise book; NHHC 62nd NCB unit history; Building the Navy’s Bases in WWII, ch. 28 [S1, S4, S6]
Iwo Jima · Pacific
March 1–7, 1945
Southern airfield operational while the battle continues
The official unit history reports Airfield No. 1 ready for fighter operations by 1 March. The cruise book says a Piper Cub landed two days after work began; a crippled B-29 made an emergency landing on D+13, and carrier aircraft began using the strip on D+14. On 7 March the 62nd is detached from V Amphibious Corps and attached to the Iwo Jima Garrison Force. Work was still conducted under mortar and sniper fire.
Source: NHHC 62nd NCB unit history; cruise book “We Did”, Iwo project chapter [S4, S1]
Iwo Jima · Pacific
March 8 – April 30, 1945
Central Airfield — mines, quarries and work around the clock
At Airfield No. 2/Central Airfield, 62nd crews clear shrapnel and duds, survey under guard, fill craters and grade continuously. A ten-man volunteer ordnance crew clears mines and booby traps; the attached bomb-disposal platoon is documented in the Corps order of battle. Official photographs show a 62nd power shovel in the quarry on 25 March and floodlit night work on a B-29 strip on 30 April.
62nd NCB power shovel and dump truck at an Iwo Jima rock quarry, 25 March 1945 (U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, SM-00340).62nd NCB building a B-29 airstrip by floodlight, 30 April 1945 (U.S. Navy Seabee Museum).
Source: Cruise book “We Did”; V Amphibious Corps AAR Annex D; U.S. Navy Seabee Museum photos SM-00340 and 5737281007 [S1, S15, S21]
Context / in progress
April 12 – August 1945
A permanent camp and the completed Central Airfield
The battalion moves to its new camp on 12 April. Its principal assignment becomes Central Airfield: by the cruise book’s five-month summary the 62nd had moved more than three million cubic yards of earth and built two very-long-range runways, north and south refueling strips, taxiways and parking areas. This is the work environment in which Frank was advanced to MM3c; the sources do not identify his individual machine or crew.
Source: Cruise book “We Did”, chronology and Iwo project chapter; NHHC unit history; 41st NCR history [S1, S4]
Confirmed — Navy Muster Roll
June 1, 1945
Advanced to Machinist’s Mate 3c on Iwo Jima
Frank is advanced from Sea1c to MM3c(T)(CB) — Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class, a Petty Officer 3rd class rating — authority BuPers Ltr Pers-67-Bt, P17-2/MM. The battalion was on Iwo Jima, so this is when he earned the crow he carried home.
Report of Changes, month ending 30 Jun 1945 — McCammon advanced to MM3c(T)(CB), 1 Jun 1945.1 July 1945 quarterly roll — McCammon rated MM3c(T)(CB).
Source: 62nd NCB Report of Changes, month ending 30 Jun 1945, p. 52 (image 00653); quarterly roll p. 14 [S3]
Family record
August 15, 1945
Named on Clark County’s published service-men roll
The Clark County Democrat prints a county service-men list that includes Frank McCammon Jr. alongside William and Cecil McCammon. The notice does not add a station or rating, but it independently connects the sailor to his home community while he was still on Iwo Jima.
Source: Clark County Democrat, 15 Aug 1945, p. 2 [S16]
Confirmed — Service Record
September 19, 1945
62nd NCB inactivated on Iwo — Frank sent home for reassignment
On the battalion’s final Report of Changes (“Battalion inactivated”), Frank (MM3c) is transferred “to nearest West Coast Receiving Station for leave and reassignment” — routed for reassignment, not discharge (some of his cohort went “for discharge” on the same page; Frank did not). This is the documentary reason his family remembered he came home late.
“Battalion inactivated” — McCammon transferred to a West Coast Receiving Station for leave & reassignment.
Source: 62nd NCB final Report of Changes, month ending 19 Sep 1945, p. 55 (image 00741) [S3]
Confirmed — Navy Muster Roll
October 1, 1945
Homeward — aboard USS LSM-243
Frank musters aboard USS LSM-243 as one of a 73-man draft transferred toward the West Coast, his Mc-neighbors McCrank and McKay right beside him. (LSM-243 was a Saipan/Guam shuttle — one leg of the trip home.)
USS LSM-243, 1 Oct 1945 — McCammon, MM3c, on the 73-man homeward draft.
Source: USS LSM-243 muster roll, 1 Oct 1945 (image 00063), NARA RG 24 [S3]
Confirmed — Service Record
October 30, 1945
Honorable discharge — Great Lakes, Illinois
Frank is discharged honorably at the U.S. Naval Personnel Separation Center, Unit #10, Great Lakes, Illinois, final classification MM3c(T)(CB), USNR V-6. The NAVPERS-553 also records foreign/sea service and campaign credit: A.T.O. and Asiatic-Pacific (1 star). He was out only about four weeks after the LSM-243 homeward draft.
Source: NAVPERS-553 Notice of Separation from U.S. Naval Service, NARA St. Louis case C-0007725337 [S13]
Confirmed — Service Record
1945 – May 15, 1959
The Naval Reserve tail — a second, final discharge in 1959
Release from active duty did not end Frank’s naval obligation. Illinois recorded his discharge twice — in Clark County (Marshall) on 2 November 1945 and again in Crawford County (Robinson) on 23 April 1951 — and on 23 November 1945 he filed an Application for Readjustment Allowance under the G.I. Bill (Public Law 346) through the State of Illinois. He then remained in the inactive U.S. Naval Reserve until the Ninth Naval District at Great Lakes honorably discharged him on 15 May 1959 (DD Form 256N), forwarding the certificate and an honorable-service button. By then his wartime MM3c(T)(CB) had been reclassified to the postwar Seabee rating EOH3 (Equipment Operator, Heavy, 3rd class), and he was living at West York, Illinois — a naval affiliation that had run all the way from October 1942 to 1959.
Honorable Discharge Certificate (DD Form 256N), 15 May 1959 — discharging Frank from the U.S. Naval Reserve.Ninth Naval District forwarding letter, 15 May 1959 — to “Frank (n) McCammon Jr., EOH3” at West York, Illinois.Reverse of the certified separation copy — Illinois county discharge recordings and the 1945 G.I.-Bill readjustment-allowance note.
Source: Family-held discharge papers: Ninth Naval District letter & Honorable Discharge Certificate (DD-256N), 15 May 1959; county-certified NAVPERS-553 with its county-recording reverse [S23]
Family record
April 5, 1950
Postwar household in Crawford County, Illinois
The federal census places Frank, 27, and Irma G., 25, in rural Hutsonville Township, Crawford County (outside Hutsonville village), with children Frank, 3; Larry R., 2; and Elizabeth J., an infant. Frank is recorded as a farm helper on a farm, with 40 weeks worked in 1949. This is the first primary record recovered for his civilian life after discharge.
Frank and Irma McCammon’s household, lines 17–21, 1950 Census (NARA).
Source: 1950 U.S. Census, Illinois, Crawford County, ED 17-6, sheet 4, lines 17–21; NARA schedule ID 1317465 [S17]
Family record
1950s – 1980s
A sheet metal worker of Local #20, Terre Haute
Frank’s obituary answers what he did after the farm years: he became a sheet metal worker, retiring as a member of Sheet Metal Workers Local #20, Terre Haute, Indiana — a skilled metal trade that echoes his Navy Machinist’s Mate rating. The family remained in the West Union area, where Frank was a member of the First Christian Church. Irma worked for several years as a wiring assembler at TRW in Marshall.
Source: Robinson Daily News, 13 Jun 1988, p. 7; Robinson Daily News, 19 Oct 2009, p. 3 [S22]
Family record
June 13, 1988
Frank McCammon Jr. passes away
Frank dies about 5:20 a.m. on 13 June 1988 at his rural West Union home, of an apparent heart attack, at 66. The funeral is held 15 June at the First Christian Church of West Union, and he is laid to rest at Hutsonville Cemetery, Crawford County, Illinois — the Navy Seabee’s stone reads MM3 US NAVY WORLD WAR II. Irma followed in 2009 and rests beside him. This timeline is offered in his memory.
Source: Robinson Daily News, 13 Jun 1988, p. 7; Robinson Argus, 16 Jun 1988, p. 6; gravestone [S22, S8]
Sources & Citations
Every statement on this page traces to one of the records below. Each scanned record is kept in the project’s records/ folder and linked here by relative path. Sources S10–S12 of the register are internal project research memoranda; S2 was retired.
S1
“We Did” — The Story of the 62nd Naval Construction Battalion (battalion cruise book), 1946, 204 pp. Frank’s platoon photo p. 23; alphabetical roster p. 193. Public copy: Internet Archive, wedidstoryof62nd00unit.
U.S. Navy Muster Rolls of Ships and Stations, 1939–1949 (NARA Record Group 24): 62nd Naval Construction Battalion quarterly rolls and Reports of Changes, Dec 1942 – Sep 1945 (NARA catalog NAID 190313581, 761 images), and USS LSM-243 muster of 1 Oct 1945. Frank appears by service number 627 36 80.
Naval History and Heritage Command / U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, 62nd Naval Construction Battalion unit-history card (itinerary: Davisville → Oahu/Red Hill → Maui → Iwo Jima; inactivated on Iwo Jima).
Building the Navy’s Bases in World War II, Bureau of Yards & Docks, 1947: Vol. II ch. 22 (Pearl Harbor / Red Hill) and ch. 28 (Marianas & Iwo Jima).
S7
WWII Draft Registration Card (DSS Form 1, rev. 6-1-42, Fifth Registration), Frank (Jr.) McCammon, Serial N-54, Order 11092 — Selective Service System records (NARA RG 147).
Joint headstone, Hutsonville Cemetery, Crawford County, Illinois (“MM3 US NAVY WORLD WAR II”; “MARRIED NOV. 26, 1942”); Find A Grave memorial 74064181.
Social Security applications (NUMIDENT), NARA Access to Archival Databases: Frank’s row (SSN 313-12-6982) and family rows naming parents Frank N. McCammon and Sylvia V. Huff.
OMPF — NAVPERS-553 “Notice of Separation from U.S. Naval Service” (+ 9 Apr 1947 NAVPERS-560 correction), NARA National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, case C-0007725337, delivered 10 Jul 2026. Discharge 30 Oct 1945, Honorable, Great Lakes, Ill.; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with 1 star.
V Amphibious Corps Landing Force, Iwo Jima Action Report, Annex D (Corps Troops) — order of battle; the 62nd’s Maui attachment; attached 3rd Platoon, 2nd Bomb Disposal Co.
Marshall Public Library digital newspaper archive (marshall.historyarchives.online): Clark County Democrat 14 Oct 1942 p.1 (delivery list) and 2 Dec 1942 p.1 & Marshall Herald 27 Nov 1942 p.5 (license notices), Clark County Democrat 15 Aug 1945 p.2 (county service-men roll). 22-query reproducible OCR audit.
1940 U.S. Census, Illinois, Clark County, York Township, ED 12-21, sheet 3-B, lines 53–59 (household 68), via NARA’s public nara-1940-census image bucket.
Gary, Indiana telephone directories, December 1941 and September 1942 (Internet Archive): brother Ancel McCammon at 1635 W. 11th Ave. (Dec 1941); 616 Adams St. = Bernard’s Food Shop / Louks residence; no McCammon in Sept 1942.
Cecil D. “Friday” McCammon obituary, Marshall Independent, 23 Jun 1988, p. 12 (brother; d. 22 Jun 1988, nine days after Frank; names their parents and siblings).
WWII War Diaries (NARA RG 38) of the 62nd’s lift ships — USS Starr (AKA-67; embarked 5 officers / 154 men of the 62nd at Kahului, 9 Jan 1945), LST-943, LST-84, USS Kline, and Commandant 12th Naval District — plus Navy film NPC-8549 (NAID 78532), “62nd BN Seabees Start Clearing #1 Air Strip of shrapnel, 2-26-45.”
S22
Robinson/Crawford County digital newspaper archive (robinson.historyarchives.online): Hutsonville Herald 14 Aug 1942 p.2 (Terre Haute defense work) and 11 Dec 1942 p.2 (wedding write-up); Robinson Daily News 27 Jun 1944 p.3 (“Call From Hawaii”), 13 Jun 1988 p.7 (Frank’s obituary) and 19 Oct 2009 p.3 (Irma’s obituary); Robinson Argus 16 Jun 1988 p.6 (fuller obituary; funeral & burial). 11-query reproducible OCR audit.
Family-held discharge papers (scans provided by the son, Frank McCammon III, 2026): the Honorable Discharge Certificate (DD Form 256N) and the Ninth Naval District forwarding letter (FL #60A, Ser 113-11724) of 15 May 1959 discharging Frank from the U.S. Naval Reserve as EOH3; a county-certified copy of the NAVPERS-553 whose reverse records the Illinois county discharge filings (Clark Co. 1945, Crawford Co. 1951) and the 1945 G.I.-Bill readjustment claim; and a family copy of the 1947 NAVPERS-560 correction.
