Foil: 6 Panel: Distinguished Flying Cross Society Column: 4 Line: 13

Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

As a 1st Lt. Air Force Navigator stationed in Alaska, Frank Otto Klein instigated research which established that the Magnetic North Pole was not at the location reported in textbooks and on maps for more than a hundred years (since 1831). In addition to reporting the pole’s new location in 1947 – which shortly later was confirmed by a Canadian Scientific Expedition – 1st Lt. Klein revealed the existence of additional secondary or local magnetic poles. Belatedly on Aug. 4, 2000 was awarded the ”Legion of Merit” by the USAF for his “..exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service from June 1946 to Oct. 1949”.