(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Captain (MC) Howard K. Gray, 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 at the Naval Hospital, Corona, California; Chief of Surgical Divisions, U.S.S. SOLACE; Naval Hospital, Aiea Heights, Territory of Hawaii; Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, from December 1941 to June 1942 and from August 1943 until the cessation of hostilities in September 1945.