Rank/Rate: Motor Machinist’s Mate, Third Class

Service Number: 750 51 17

Birth Date: October 6, 1923

From: Memphis, Tennessee

Decorations: Purple Heart

Submarine: USS Grayback (SS-208)

Loss Date: February 26, 1944

Location: Near 25° 47’N x 128° 45’E, south of Okinawa

Circumstances: Sunk by air attack

Remarks: Photo courtesy of Martis Donald Ramage, Jr., cousin.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS Grayback (SS-208)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Grayback (SS-208)

Find a Grave Memorial: Milton Lawrence Francis (Honolulu Memorial)