Ryoji Terada

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Ryoji Terada (39161813), Technician Fifth Grade, U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving as a Medical Aidman with the 442d Regimental Combat Team, attached to the 36th Infantry Division, on 27 and 28 October 1944, in the vicinity of Biffontaine, France. Upon seeing two medical aid men of a rifle company being evacuated to the rear Technician Fifth Grade Terada immediately went to the aid of the rifle company after treating all the wounded men in his platoon. Though enemy artillery shells fell in his immediate vicinity, he continued to expose himself in order to administer first aid. Technician Fifth Grate Terada was wounded in the shelling and needed immediate hospitalization himself, but remained on duty for 36 hours after he was wounded, rendering first aid and evacuating patients before allowing himself to be evacuated.