The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Lieutenant Commander (MC) Ernest N. Neber, United States Navy, for heroic conduct as Flight Surgeon with a Marine Fighter Squadron in the Solomon Islands area on 4 September 1943. Lieutenant Commander Neber rushed to the aid of three men in a truck that had caught fire from an exploding aerial bomb. Lifting them out of the truck while ammunition from the gun pens of four blazing planes exploded around them, he carried an unconscious, badly burned victim to safety where he skillfully administered treatment. Seconds after he made his daring rescue, a gasoline truck exploded and completely demolished the four planes and the vehicle.