(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Rear Admiral Irving M. McQuiston, 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 as Director Progress Division in the Bureau of Aeronautics from April 1941 to February 1946; and Chief of Aviation Progress in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air, from 10 September 1943 to 28 May 1946.