The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Seaman Richard M. Lambert, United States Navy, for heroic conduct during a fire in a home in Oxnard, California, shortly after midnight on the morning of 19 March 1960. Passing by his car when he observed smoke and flames coming from the house, Seaman Lambert rushed to a window and succeeded with another rescuer in removing a man and two children from the burning house. Upon learning that there was a third child still unaccounted for, Seaman Lambert re-entered the smoke-filled home alone and carried the child to safety.