(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Carpenter’s Mate First Class Arthur Nickerson, United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for extremely heroic conduct while serving aboard a Coast Guard Cutter in attempting the rescue of survivors of a sinking U.S. Army transport. When a small boat containing thirty-two survivors of the sinking ship was so violently thrown about by the rough seas that three men were thrown over the side, Carpenter’s Mate First Class Nickerson volunteered to go the rescue of the helpless men, disregarding a northerly gale, snow, extremely rough seas and the near freezing temperature of the water and the battered exhausted condition of a shipmate who had previously entered the water in an effort to retrieve one of the survivors. Making his way to the survivor, Carpenter’s Mate First Class Nickerson succeeded in towing him back to the cutter where the survivor slipped from his grasp after Nickerson had been battered into a state of helplessness by the heavy seas. Carpenter’s Mate First Class Nickerson was then hauled back on board the cutter in a semi-conscious condition.