(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Electrician’s Mate First Class Rudolph P. Yelenich, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct in saving the lives of two shipmates about to be carried under by the suction of the ship after the U.S.S. MORRISON (DD-560), had been hit by Japanese suicide planes in the vicinity of Okinawa, on 4 May 1945.