The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Torpedoman’s Mate Second Class William N. Low, United States Navy, for heroic conduct on 10 February 1943, while serving aboard the U.S.S. GUDGEON (SS-211) during the SIXTH War Patrol of that submarine in enemy-controlled waters near the Island of Timor. On that date, Torpedoman’s Mate Second Class Low and three comrades crossed rough seas from their ship in a rubber boat, landed on a strange enemy-controlled island, and made possible the rescue of twenty-eight stranded Australian commandos.