The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Commodore Earl Griffith Rose, United States Coast Guard, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Commander of the Greenland Patrol of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet from November 1943 to July 1945. During that period of his command, vessels of the Greenland Patrol destroyed weather stations and captured vessels of the enemy operating in East Greenland, thus foiling Nazi attempts to gain foothold in Greenland. Directing also weather and air-sea rescue services, he assisted in ferrying of aircraft on the northern routs of the Atlantic.