The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Boatswain’s Mate Second Class John O. Wolfgram, United States Navy, for heroic conduct on the night of 29 December 1943. Seeing the desperate struggles of a fellow seaman who had fallen overboard from the SC 1361, Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Wolfgram dived over the side, swam to the unconscious man and brought him to safety.