(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant (MC) Gerald A. Martin, 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 while attached to the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board at Koje Do, Korea, and Medical Officer of Fleet Epidemiological Disease Control Unit ONE, from 27 March to 27 September 1951.