Eliseo Garcia

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Eliseo Garcia (RA18253274), Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations while serving with Company L, 3d Battalion, 23d Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division. Sergeant Garcia distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action against enemy aggressor forces in the vicinity of Changnyong, Korea, on 16 September 1950. The platoon of which Sergeant Garcia was a member, while participating in a drive to the Naktong River, came under vicious fire from two hostile machine-guns which caused the men to falter and pinned them down. Sergeant Garcia leaped to his feet, pushed across the fire-swept area to the emplacement on the left flank, successfully silenced the gun, and killed the crew with his grenades. Ignoring a painful wound sustained in this same action, he again rushed through withering fire to the emplacement on the right flank of his platoon and neutralized the second gun and its crew with grenades. As a result of his heroic action, eight of the enemy were killed, the defense of the opposition was broken, and his inspired comrades continued the advance with such intensity that the objective was expeditiously taken with a minimum of casualties to his unit.