Dale S. Ernest

Present with the crew at Avon Park in the autumn of 1944 — the same window a later VA statement describes as the onset of Frank’s back injury. Thirty-one in the compilation. The whole tour. Serial 35: Fifth Service Command. West Virginia, from a source that is not the wallet.

West Virginia University, then the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. By January 1959 he held a patent for an automatic depth-correcting device for moored mines. Visited Martinez that same year — “Dale Ernest + Dau, ’59,” in Jimmy Calicura’s slide index. Died in 2007.

Nine men, four totals. The compilation’s count, beside the other eight.