(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant, Junior Grade Robert E. Youngren, United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism while serving on board an LST during and explosion at Westloch, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii., on May 21, 1944. Wounded on the head from falling debris while in the midst of rescue work, he observed a Marine holding on to a line trailing from the bow of a landing ship underway in the channel. He maneuvered his boat into a position, which permitted him to jump on a buoy, grasp the man and free him from the danger of being drawn into the churning propellers of the ship.