(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Commander Harvey E. Lyon, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States during a period in 1965 while assigned as Commanding Officer, U.S.S. POLLACK (SSN-603), for planning and executing a complex independent submarine operation, the results of which were of utmost importance to the national defense of the United States.