The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Motor Machinist’s Mate Third Class John J. Miller, United States Naval Reserve, for heroic conduct in unhesitatingly going to the aid of a seaman who had fallen overboard while attempting to secure an LCM to a buoy in waters off a U.S. Navy base on 5 August 1944. Motor Machinist’s Mate Third Class Miller dived over the side and succeeded in reaching and supporting the violently struggling man until they were both hauled aboard by a line thrown from a rescue boat.