The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Boatswain’s Mate First Class Lawrence S. Jurkovich, United States Naval Reserve, for heroic conduct as a member of a mobile fire-fighting unit when an Army train loaded with ammunition and gasoline was derailed at Licata, Sicily, 24 July 1943. Boatswain’s Mate First Class Jurkovich worked tirelessly to control the fire with utter disregard to his own safety and the danger of imminent explosions.