The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Commander Elmore S. Pettyjohn, United States Navy, for heroic conduct during World War II. When enemy bomb hits started a raging fire in a supply and ammunition dump, Commander Pettyjohn organized a fire-fighting party and made his way, under constant danger of further air attack, to the dump. Working in a blazing inferno of exploding ammunition, he finally extinguished the fire.