(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Quartermaster Second Class J. E. Young, United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct while serving aboard a destroyer escort during the rescue of survivors of the torpedoed U.S.S. LEOPOLD in the North Atlantic on the night of 9 March 1944. Courageously volunteering to assist in rescue activities, Quartermaster Second Class Young went over the side into ice, oil covered water and working with utter disregard to personal safety secured life line around the exhausted survivors until he himself was completely exhausted and unable to continue his battle against the rough seas.