Note: "Under the nom de plume of Peter Stirling, Stern wrote several short stories for Esquire about a nameless, brand-new U. S. Army 2nd lieutenant fighting the Japanese in the jungles of Burma. Following the war, he connected three of the stories, "I Meet Francis", "Francis and the Golden", and "Francis Unmasked" into the 1946 novel Francis." --Wikipedia (2018-11-09) Sources differ concerning the name of the 2nd Lieutenant ("nameless" above) in Francis stories, the two Francis novels, and the Francis film comedies (Universal Studios, 1950 to 1956) starring Donald O'Connor in that role; and differ also about the David Stern pseudonyms under which Francis stories were published in Esquire and in a 1945 collection. Peter Stirling or Peter Sterling?