The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Boatswain’s Mate First Class Leroy C. Morrow, United States Navy, for heroic conduct when Japanese planes dropped bombs near his Motor Torpedo Boat base at Tulagi, on the night of 5 March 1943, killing or injuring all officers. Boatswain’s Mate First Class Morrow took charge of the remaining personnel and directed the efforts of his comrades in extinguishing the fires, thereby contributing to the saving of the base.