The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain (Air Corps) Frank G. Irvin, U.S. Army Air Corps, for heroism achievement while participating in an aerial flight from Wright Field, Ohio, to Indianapolis, Indiana, on 22 July 1936. While making a carbon monoxide test flight of a new Army airplane at an altitude of 2,000 feet, the engine burst into flames and smoke. Capitan Irvin the pilot, and his copilot, without thought of themselves directed the crew of observers to jump and then by switching gas valves and using fire extinguishers successfully extinguished the fire, thereby preventing not only possible loss of life but the destruction to valuable Government property.