The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Ensign Albert M. Anderson (NSN: 0-564925), United States Navy, for heroic conduct during the hours of darkness on the early morning of 18 November 1959 while serving on board U.S.S. AMMEN (DD-527) in the Formosa Strait. When heavy seas washed two men and several life rafts overboard from an accompanying ship, Ammen instituted an immediate search and shortly thereafter, maneuvered alongside a life raft containing one of the victims, who was severely injured and unable to help himself. With Ammen rolling heavily and threatening to crash and swamp the raft, Ensign Anderson, in the face of grave personal danger, leaped onto the raft in a daring attempt to affect a rescue. With the aid of a shipmate who later joined him in the raft, he succeeded in placing the injured man into a stretcher and in hosting him to the safety of the ship.