The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Major Robert Morton Neiman (MCSN: 0-7411), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for extraordinary heroism as Commanding Officer of Company C, Fourth Tank Battalion, FOURTH Marine Division, in operations against enemy Japanese forces on Saipan, Mariana Islands, from 15 June to 9 July 1944. Leading his company in an attack against prepared enemy fortifications and gun positions on 19 June, Major Neiman evacuated his tank when it was immobilized by fire from a large caliber gun and led the attack from a second tank until it too was rendered inoperative by a land mine. Evacuating this vehicle under heavy machine-gun and mortar fire, he resumed command in a third tank and pressed the attack, penetrating the well-entrenched hostile positions, destroying several machine-gun and mortar emplacements and inflicting heavy casualties on the Japanese. His inspiring leadership, courage, and devotion to duty upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.