Clarance Henson (radio entrepreneur)

Clarance Edward Henson (1916–2003) was a radio engineer, entrepreneur and wartime developer of Long Range Navigational Radar (LORAN).

[1] During World War II, Henson was recruited into the Office of Scientific Research and Development and later served at MIT's Radiation Laboratory (Rad Labs) and was a technical observer in the U.S. Army, where he was brevetted as a major.

After a stint in Massachusetts, he then installed LORAN stations throughout the world, including in Canada (Labrador Bay and Newfoundland), Great Britain, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, the Shetland Islands, Iceland, Italy, France, Greece, North Africa, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Tibet from 1942 to 1945.

[3] [4] Henson worked with the RAF in London during Nazi Germany's V-1 and V-2 rocket strikes, where he helped triangulate bombing raids over enemy territory.

[8] In addition to WLRS, his company Henson Broadcasting owned and operated, at various times, WAVG in Louisville (acquired 1981 from the Norton family's Orion Broadcasting); WXVW in Jeffersonville, Indiana; WORX and WORX-FM in Madison, Indiana; and KISO and KLOZ in El Paso, Texas.