The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Aviation Cadet Alfonso Carrozzo, United States Navy, for heroic conduct during the rescue of survivors in a lifeboat of a wrecked merchantman near Greenland, 21 March 1943. Aviation Cadet Carrozzo effected a perilous descent on the cargo net to the swamped craft which pitched dangerously near the rescuing cutter. Although the men were weak and numb from long exposure, he courageously boarded the boat, cleared a fouled line and tied another to one of the occupants who was then pulled to the vessel’s deck.