(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Seaman First Class Jack S. Jordan, United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism while serving aboard a Coast Guard Cutter engaged in the rescue operations 8 June 1944 off the French coast. Seaman First Class Jordan ‘s craft moored alongside a holed destroyer escort to take of survivors. When the vessel began to roll over, Seaman First Class Jordan although the order to abandon ship, had been given continued to work on the bridge and succeeding in getting clear a member of the crew who had been pinned down by wreckage. He then successfully lowered the man and jumped clear as the ship took its final plunge.