John F. Frankish was a native of Ontario, California and was the husband of Barabara Frankish.  They had a daughter Gail and a son Brian.  He got his first newspaper job at the Ontario Weekly Harold when he was fifteen.  He went to the University of Southern California on a four-year journalism scholarship.  During his summers he worked for the Ontario Daily Report and he was the editor of the Daily Trojan during his senior year. 

He joined the United Press in 1935 and became the manager of the Cleveland and Miami bureaus in Ohio.  He then became the Division Representative at Columbus.  In January, 1944, he transferee to New York to work on the war desk before going overseas.

He was one of the first war correspondents to enter Germany, as he followed the American fores attacking Aachen on 13 September 1944.  On 23 December he was at a hotel in a Belgian village during the Battle of the Bulge, when e was killed by a bomb dropped by a German aircraft.  He was 30 years old.

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The information above was drawn from the obituaries provided by Erwin Derhaag.