(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Seaman Apprentice James R. Gould, United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct in effecting the rescue of survivors from the torpedoed S.S. DORCHESTER 3 February 1943. When benumbed survivors were unable to make efforts to climb aboard the rescue ship, Seaman Apprentice Gould volunteered from the dangerous task of going over the side to assist exhausted and helpless survivors and fellow volunteers rescued 93 survivors from certain death in the steadily mounting seas.