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 Brigadier General John Martin Clark, United States Army Air Forces, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States from December 1942 to June 1943, as Chief of Maintenance and Repair Division, Headquarters EIGHTH Air Force Service Command. General Clark conceived, planned, and developed mobile repair units designed to bring repair facilities to crash-landed aircraft, thereby effecting a saving of two-thirds non-operational time. His conception, energetic organization, and capable direction of this plan resulted in the return to operations of eighty-three four-engined bombers not otherwise repairable and reflect great credit upon the armed forces of the United States and upon himself.