The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Motor Machinist’s Mate First Class Paul Kozub, United States Naval Reserve, for heroic conduct as a member of a naval beach party on the Normandy Coast, 6 June 1944. Motor Machinist’s Mate First Class Kozub noticed two wounded men on a landing craft foundered about 150 yards offshore. With one end of a line placed about his waist and an assistant holding the other, Motor Machinist’s Mate First Class Kozub, despite machine gun and sniper fire that whipped up the water all around him and his assistant, reached the craft, found one man beyond aid but tied the line about the other and supported him to shore.