(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant James Ford, United States Coast Guard, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for daring initiative outstanding fortitude and extreme courage in rescuing a blind man from the tracks of a subway train at the 59th Street Station, Seventh Avenue Subway, New York City, on 14 March 1945. When the man fell from the waiting platform about 150 feet from him he unhesitatingly jumped into the pit seized the semi-conscious man and made a desperate attempt to lift him to safety with the aid of a Naval Officer. Failing in this effort he frantically signaled the motorman of the rapidly approaching train to stop. As the train continued to bear down he leaped onto the platform and pulled the blind man from the tracks just as the train passed thus saving his life.