The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Lieutenant Commander Lloyd M. Johnson, United States Navy, for heroic conduct during World War II. Boarding a tanker which had been set afire in a collision, Lieutenant Commander Johnson led a party which fought continuously for 25 hours to control and extinguish the fire. When hot metal threatened to ignite a stream of gasoline, he crawled along the deck in stifling heat to plug up the broken line with bars of soap.