Robert W. Jamison

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Robert W. Jamison (0-1294316), First Lieutenant (Infantry), U.S. Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, *** Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division, on ** November 1943, in the vicinity of *****, Italy. While leading his platoon in clearing a battalion bivouac area of anti-personnel mines, one of the men near Lieutenant Jamison struck an enemy “S” mine. As the mine sprang out of the ground, Lieutenant Jamison immediately leaped forward and attempted to kick the detonator off to prevent it’s exploding, even though he could easily have jumped in a nearby ditch and saved himself from injury. Although he failed to prevent the explosion, Lieutenant Jamison turned the mine over, causing the force of the explosion to be in the opposite direction, thereby saving many of his men from serious injury. However, in so doing, he himself was seriously wounded. Lieutenant Jamison’s courage and initiative was exemplary and a credit to the Armed Forces of the United States.