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Frank Akers was born in Nashville, Tenn., March 28, 1901. After secondary schooling at Wallace Univ., he entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1922. He served on the destroyers of our Pacific Fleet until he was assigned to flight training at Pensacola and was designated a naval aviator in 1925. He again returned to the fleet where he was in various fighting squadrons until ordered back in 1928, as an instructor in the Flight Training School at Pensacola.