The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Electrician’s Mate Second Class Charles R. Vanderscoff, United States Coast Guard, for heroic conduct in rescuing a boy from the rapids of the Machias River, Machias, Massachusetts on 5 May 1944. When a young boy jumped into the rapids from his small raft a sit broke from the river bank and headed toward the falls, Electrician’s Mate Second Class Vanderscoff without delaying to remove his clothing and heavy boots, unhesitatingly plunged into the water and swam to the struggling child and succeeded in bringing him to shore.