The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Lieutenant Fenton G. Jordan, Jr., United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while serving on the staff of a major naval task force during the invasion of Southern France in 1944. Lieutenant Jordan was assigned the highly important task of photographic interpretation and contributed materially to the establishment of the Allied Armies on shore with minimum losses.