Michael Radice

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Michael Radice (RA12276936), Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations while serving with Company E, 2d Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment (Infantry), 1st Cavalry Division. Private First Class Radice distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action against enemy aggressor forces in the vicinity of Uijongbu, Korea, on 10 May 1951. On that date, Company E was assigned the mission of securing commanding terrain approximately 5000 yards north of Uijongbu. As Private Radice and his platoon moved up a steep, rocky slope to attack bitterly defended enemy positions, they were pinned down by heavy machine-gunfire halting their advance. Private Radice, realizing that drastic action was required, began to crawl and dodge from rock to rock, edging toward the enemy foxholes near the summit. Accurately throwing grenades and aggressively assaulting one position after another, he destroyed three separate strongpoints, each containing three hostile riflemen. Despite a withering hail of bullets, Private Radice inched father up the fire-swept incline and was wounded in the right arm while silencing two machine-gun positions. Although bleeding profusely from his wound, he grabbed several abandoned enemy grenades and continued his lone attack on two dugouts, killing four riflemen. Fearlessly proceeding toward a mortar position, which was delivering crippling fire on the company command post, he neutralized a mortar position and its crew. Although seriously weakened by excessive loss of blood, Private Radice reached an exposed area where he rescued a wounded comrade, moving him to a place of comparative safety and refusing medical aid until the man had been treated.