The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Electrician’s Mate Third Class Robert J. Dunne, United States Coast Guard, for heroism on 26 January 1944, while attached to the U.S.S. LST 16 during the amphibious invasion at Anzio, Italy. During a full gale with extremely heavy seas he volunteered as a boat crewmember to go the burning HMS LST 422 in an effort to rescue personnel trapped below decks. He assisted in taking the small boat through a heavily mined area alongside other blazing ship, which was pitching and rolling in a dangerous manner and whose ammunition was exploding and aided in the rescue of a soldier trapped in a lower compartment by removing him through a hole in the side of the ship and bringing him safely to the U.S.S. LST 16.