The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting Legion of Merit to Rear Admiral Robert Donohue, United States Coast Guard, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Chief Personnel Officer of the Coast Guard from April 1942 to 22 November 1944. Exercising brilliant initiative and untiring effort, Rear Admiral Donohue organized and put into effect a rigid program from the classification, grouping, training and processing of Coast Guard personnel who manned the escort vessels, transports and small landing craft used in amphibious operations in close cooperation with the Navy, and who successfully carried out vital duties in connection with Port Security, aids to Navigation, and Women Reserve and the Temporary Auxiliary. By his sound judgment, unfailing tact and superb leadership he contributed materially to the splendid achievements of the Coast Guard in assuring the safe and uninterrupted flow of enormous quantities of our nation’s manpower, equipment and supplies to the battlefront of the world.