USS Corry (DD-463) Shipmates Francis “Mac “McKernon Francis McKernon in 2003 at the US Navy Memorial Lone Sailor statue, West Haven, Connecticut beach. Born in 1917 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Francis “Mac “McKernon enlisted with the U.S. Naval Reserves in March 1942. He spent most of that year in top secret technical training at two Navy communications schools, one in Grove City, Pennsylvania for 12 weeks, and the other at the Bellevue Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC for 24 weeks. Prior to the