(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Oran D. Ragan, United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism as coxswain of a tank lighter during the assault on French Morocco 8 to 11 November 1942. When mountainous waves pounded the beach near Mehdia, keeping all boats at their moorings, Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Ragan at great risk of his life, dauntlessly put out from shore with the senior medical officers and 12 wounded comrades. With expert seamanship and grim determination he took the wounded to safety.