The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Coxswain Morris K. Eagan, United States Naval Reserve, for heroic conduct while attached to an LCM in the waters off New Guinea on 3 May 1944. Coxswain Eagan unhesitatingly went to the aid of a shipmate who had been thrown overboard during a severe gale. He dove into the raging seas, swam to the dazed and helpless man and, with the aid of a life ring, returned him to the ship.