(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Commander Louis Ashton Drexler, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit (Posthumously) for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Commander of a group of Tank Landing Ships, and of landing craft task units at Lingayen, Nsugbu, Kerama Retto, Leyte and Ie Shima, during World War II.