(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, 20 July 1942, takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Technician Third Grade Masato Iwamoto, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States by his work to capture the Aitape airbase during the New Guinea Campaign in the Pacific Theater of Operations in April 1944.