Somers, Francis Eugene, 1918-

Francis Eugene Somers (b. 1918) entered the Naval Academy in 1937 and graduated with the Class of 1941. During World War II, he served on destroyers BUCK, WILKES, and MARSHALL. After the war he transferred to the U.S. Navy Reserve (USNR) and inactive duty (1947); he returned to active duty in 1950 and served until 1955. Somers joined the C.I.A. in 1955 where he worked in the nuclear weapons division for seventeen years. He retired as a captain in the USNR in 1978.