Page "Legion of Merit" Paragraph 16

In a letter to the Quartermaster General ( QMG ) dated December 24, 1941, the Adjutant General formally requested action be initiated to create a Meritorious Service Medal and provide designs in the event the decoration was established.

Proposed designs prepared by Bailey, Banks, and Biddle and the Office of the Quartermaster General were provided to Assistant Chief of Staff ( G1 ) ( Colonel Heard ) by the QMG on January 5, 1942.