The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Quartermaster Second Class Henry John Logar, United States Coast Guard, for heroic conduct while serving aboard the U.S.C.G.C. ALGONQUIN during rescue of survivors of the S.S. SVEND FOYNE in the North Atlantic near Greenland on 21 March 1943. Although exceptionally rough seas rolled his ship 20 to 30 degrees and wind and freezing water seriously hampered rescue operations, Quartermaster Second Class Logar with three comrades unhesitatingly went over the side and effected a perilous descent to the men who weak and numb from long exposure clung helplessly to the cargo net after their life boat had tipped and thrown them into the sea. By his brave defiance of imminent personal danger, he assisted in saving two men who otherwise might have been lost.