The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Commander (CEC) R. F. Armknecht, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States involving collecting, coordinating and preparing for publication information invaluable to strategic planning of the Marianas Campaign. During October, November and December 1943, he was assigned for approximately six weeks of temporary duty in in the Office of Naval Intelligence. In that short time, working at top speed, and utilizing both the notes and previously prepared and his well-stored memory, he personally dictated and edited more than 90% of the monograph characterized by JICPOA as the “most helpful, complete and up-to-date study of Guam.”