The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting Legion of Merit to Lieutenant Commander Frank M. McCabe, United States Coast Guard, for on 20 April 1944, while serving as Commanding Officer of a destroyer escort off the Algerian Coast. When U.S. destroyer on convoy escort duty was attached and sunk by enemy planes, his ship proceeded to the rescue of survivors. He displayed great skill and exceptional seamanship in so maneuvering his ship that more than one hundred exhausted and injured survivors were saved. Later, when his ship was torpedoed in action with an enemy submarine, he so skillfully directed the operation of his ship that although seriously among damaged it was saved and brought into part.