The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Chief Boatswain’s Mate Leonard W. Campbell, United States Coast Guard, for heroic conduct while serving aboard the U.S.C.G.C. MODOC during rescue of survivors from the SVEND FOYNE in Atlantic on 21 March 1943. Observing three survivors who had jumped from a life raft alongside his vessel and were helplessly trying to fasten their life lines, Chief Boatswain’s Mate Campbell descended the port rescue net and for 10 minutes struggled unaided to secure a line to one of the floundering men. His courageous action made at great risk to his own life was instrumental in the saving of two survivors who would otherwise have been lost.