The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Lieutenant (MC) Ferrall H. Moore, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Medical officer in charge of the evacuation of casualties at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, from 30 November 1942 to 4 February 1943. Lieutenant Moore instituted a plan which facilitated the loading and evacuation of patients. His efficiency in handling aircraft flight crew, sick, and wounded made possible the transfer of several hundred men to base hospitals by air without a fatality en route.