The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Shipfitter Second Class Ellis C. Dougherty, United States Naval Reserve, for heroic conduct when the U.S.S. PARTRIDGE was sunk off the French coast on 11 June 1944. Shipfitter Second Class Dougherty with water up to his waist, managed to cut loose a raft and then, although wounded, aided men to the raft.