Navy Federal Credit Union

Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Coxswain

    Action Date:

    May 3, 1944

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 334 (January 1945)

    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.