(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant [then Ensign] Herbert Alfred Levitt (NSN: 0-96613), 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 while interned as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese at Batavia, Java, following the sinking of the U.S.S. HOUSTON in the Java Sea on 28 February 1942.