Francis B. Loomis Jr.
…Corps staff during the planning of Okinawa operation. From left to right: David R. Nimmer, Walter A. Wachtler, Roy S. Geiger, Merwin H. Silverthorn, Sidney S. Wade, Loomis and Gale T. Cummings. He returned to San Diego in April 1938 and was appointed commanding officer of the Marine Detachment aboard the cruiser…