The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Private First Class Conrad A. Schultz (MCSN: 970975), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty while serving as an Assistant Driver of a Tank of Company B, First Tank Battalion, FIRST Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on against enemy Japanese forces on Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 11 June 1945. When his tank was hit and set afire by a hostile anti-tank shell, Private First Class Schultz was severely burned and injured by shell fragments and the driver was pinned in his compartment by a heavy section of burning track which had been blown across the hatch. Although suffering from his wounds and in the midst of heavy enemy machine-gun and mortar fire, he pried the hot track loose and, despite the intense pain of his charred hands, lifted the unconscious driver from the tank and carried him to safety. By his personal bravery, initiative and grave concern for the welfare of another, Private First Class Schultz upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.