(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Quartermaster Second Class Robert A. Drake, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct as a member of the crew of the U.S.S. LCT (G) 755, engaged in transporting Japanese ordnance supplies and surveyed American shells from Cavite, Philippine Islands, to a point beyond Corregidor and unloading them into the sea, on 25 July 1945.