He died on 19 November 1942 of wounds received in action while serving as pharmacist's mate third class with the United States Marine Corps on Guadalcanal.

At 02:23 hrs on 15 November 1944, at 36°11′N 19°45′W / 36.183°N 19.750°W / 36.183; -19.750 (in the North Atlantic about 700 nmi (1,300 km) west of Gibraltar), Frament mistakenly rammed and sank the Italian submarine Luigi Settembrini which Frament was escorting to Bermuda, where the Italians were to provide aid in anti-submarine warfare training.

[1] USS Scott (DE-214) was detached from a convoy bound for the Mediterranean to help search for Italian survivors, and then escorted Frament back to Boston, arriving on 3 December.

Convoy escort duty took her to Eniwetok, Ulithi, and Leyte in May, and on the 29th she arrived at Okinawa, where she joined the outer patrol screen guarding the great number of ships off the island.

Assigned to rescue duty in June, she proved herself on the 10th, when she and several smaller craft saved every man of William D. Porter (DD-579), when that destroyer was sunk by a suicide plane.