Frank E. Petersen

Frank E. Petersen. Self: America's Marine Aviators. Retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Frank Emmanuel Petersen, Jr. was born in Topeka, Kansas, the second of four children to Frank Petersen, Sr., a radio repairman, and Edythe Southard Petersen. He grew up in South Topeka, ten miles away next to Topeka Army Airfield where he watched the aircraft take off and land. He attended Monroe Elementary School, the gifted program of Boswell...