The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Gunner’s Mate Second Class Kornello Medynski, United States Navy, for heroic conduct when low-flying enemy aircraft bombed and strafed three of our motor torpedo boats in the Solomon Islands area on 20 July 1943. Gunner’s Mate Second Class Medynski, a crew man of one PT boat, jumped into the water without a life jacket to help a seriously injured shipmate. Disregarding his own safety, he swam to the burning and exploding boat and rescued his unconscious comrade.