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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="057285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <B>VP-21 & VPB-111 Veterans Association</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="056d2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.vp-21.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.vp-21.org/"><U><B><U>Home</U></B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biographies/Profiles"><U><B><U>Back to Biogaphies Main Page</U></B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div>  <A NAME="frost_william_leroy"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#jack_frost" TITLE="F Biographies"><U>Frost, William LeRoy</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="jack_frost"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><B><U>Jack Frost</U></B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <U> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="898" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 362 ><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="754" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 317 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2920d370.jpg" border=0 width="269" height="311" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="294fa370.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="311" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="29606370.jpg" border=0 width="262" height="311" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> U.S. Naval Academy, 1951</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="246"><div> South Pole, 1970</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="246"><div> 1981</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="892"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="892" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></U></div> <bR> <div> <B>William LeRoy Frost, (Jack)</B> was born in Stoneham, MA, the son of CHRELEC William Henry Frost, USN.</div> <div> He received a Presidential appointment to the Naval Academy in 1947. Upon graduation he served on</div> <div> USS Bataan, (CVL 29) then received Flight Training in Pensacola, FL and Advanced Flight Training in</div> <div> Corpus Christi, TX. Designated Naval Aviator he received his wings in March 1953. </div> <bR> <div> Subsequent assignments included tours with <B>VP-23</B> in Brunswick, ME, flying P2V-5 aircraft, first as Second Pilot, </div> <div> later as Patrol Plane Commander with primary mission of ASW. Tour included naval exercises in Italy</div> <div> and French Morocco and deployment to Argentia NF After completion of a post graduate course in</div> <div> Aeronautical Engineering at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Jack became Engineering Division </div> <div> Director at the Bureau of Aeronautics General Representative, Eastern District, (BAGR-ED) in New York City, with proficiency </div> <div> flights out of Floyd Bennett Airfield. </div> <bR> <div> He returned to Brunswick, ME for ASW duty with <B>VP-21 </B>as Planning Officer and with collateral duties as Cold Weather</div> <div> Officer. During this tour he shared Winter Survival Training in the Maine woods (Rangely) with VP-21 Veterans</div> <div> Association Webmaster, Frank Balogh Jr.. The squadron also deployed to Keflavik, Iceland, and Thule,</div> <div> Greenland, with TAD's to Labrador, Norway and Scotland, among others. Back at NAS Brunswick, ME</div> <div> with Fleet Air Wing Three. Jack was Training Officer and member of Aviators Evaluation,</div> <div> Standardization, Instrument Flight Check and Improvement Boards. </div> <bR> <div> This was followed by duty with Air Development Squadron One (VX-1) squadron in Key West, FL, and attendance for a course of</div> <div> instruction at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA. He then served as Anti - Submarine Warfare</div> <div> Officer with the Assistant Commander for Research and Technology, Naval Air Systems Command, in</div> <div> Arlington, VA, was assigned to Major Fleet Escort Study, ASW Assistant t to Warfare Branch Head,</div> <div> Advanced Systems Concept Division, Research and Technology. At the Center for Naval Analysis Ocean</div> <div> Surveillance Study, (letter of Appreciation from CNO.) </div> <bR> <div> Jack was then assigned Commanding Officer, Antarctic Support Activities DETALPHA, McMurdo Station Winter-Over 1970, </div> <div> and later awarded the Antarctic Service Medal with Wintering Over clasp and disk. For his contribution to the U.S. scientific</div> <div> research as officer-in-charge and commander of Operation Deep Freeze, a cliff was named for him in</div> <div> Mary Byrd Land at the South Pole. Jack's last tour of duty was at the Center for Naval Analysis,</div> <div> Arlington, VA, as Operations/ Systems Analyst, Systems Evaluation Group, Study Director, ASW Sensors</div> <div> Study, Assistant Study Director, Future Submarine Forces Study, Study Director, Naval Air Technology</div> <div> Study.</div> <bR> <div> During his career, Jack was qualified to fly SNJ, SNB-JRE, PBM-5, P4Y-2 aircraft and was Patrol Plane</div> <div> Commander of P2V5, P2V7, SP2H and P3A  aircraft. He was one of the few pilots (at the time) to have</div> <div> flown over both North and South Poles. </div> <bR> <div> After retirement from active duty in the Navy on 31 July 1973 Jack became a Program Director, with</div> <div> Operations Research Inc, a Consulting Company in Silver Spring, MD. He also did graduate work</div> <div> toward a Master of Engineering Information degree, George Washington University, Washington, DC.</div> <bR> <div> Jack married Yolande Paquin in Montreal, PQ, Canada, upon graduation from the Naval Academy in</div> <div> 1951. They had nine children. There are now 23 grandchildren and 3 great-grands. Jack died in</div> <div> December 1981 following surgery for mitral valve replacement. He was buried with full military honors</div> <div> in Arlington National Cemetery. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#frost_william_leroy" TITLE="F Biographies"><U><B>BACK TO TOP</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>