Editing Lew Allen (section)

==Legacy==
The United States Air Force created the General Lew Allen, Jr. Trophy in Allen's honor, which is awarded annually to an Officer and a Senior NCO in the aircraft maintenance or munitions career fields directly involved with setting up aircraft sorties.<ref name="multi2">{{cite web|title=AFI 36-2603|work=The USAF Maintenance Awards Program|access-date=2008-01-23|publisher=USAF|url=http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/AFI36-2818.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227040038/http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/AFI36-2818.pdf|archive-date=2009-02-27}}</ref>

In 1983, Allen received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#public-service}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Wade |first=Larry |date= July 14, 1983|title= American Academy of Achievement fills Coronado with famous names|url= https://achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Coronado-Journal-July-14-1983.pdf |work= Coronado Journal}}</ref>

Since 1986, the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] awards in his honor the ''[[Lew Allen Award for Excellence]]'', until 1990 called the ''Director's Research Achievement Award''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Science and Technology: The Lew Allen Award for Excellence Recipients |publisher=[[JPL]] |url=http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/community/awardsachievements/laAward/pastrecepients/ |access-date=12 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518092128/http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/community/awardsachievements/laAward/pastrecepients/ |archive-date=18 May 2015 }}</ref>

Minor planet [[4125 Lew Allen]] is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite book|title=(4125) Lew Allen In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher=Springer |date=2003 |isbn=978-3-540-29925-7 |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_4099}}</ref>