(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Fireman Second Class Gustave A. Gehlert, Jr., United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism while serving aboard an LST on 21 May 1944, at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, when an explosion occurred aboard an adjoining ship, as he was overhauling a ship’s boat. Disregarding personal safety, he remained at his post, others working with him having left the boat, and miraculously placed the motor in running condition and proceeded at great peril to his life through a hail of debris to pick up men struggling in the water. Although he had never before handled this type of boat singled handed he operated the boat and assisted a number of men, some wounded, into this boat until he became exhausted. He was joined by an officer and was able to carry on.