The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Anthony Sanders, United States Navy, for heroic conduct as a member of a fire and rescue party attached to a transport anchored in Algiers Harbor on 16 July 1943. When a nearby cargo ship was wracked by fire and explosion, Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Sanders voluntarily made his way between piles of blazing gasoline containers to cut the mooring lines so the burning ship could be towed clear of the harbor.