Kenneth W. Sells

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Kenneth W. Sells (ER19242255), Private, U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving with Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, in action near Na’san, Korea, on 20 May 1951. Private Sells’ company, pinned down by enemy mortar and automatic weapons fire, was launching a strong counterattack when the enemy showered the company’s position with concussion and fragmentation grenades. Private Sells, providing flank security for a machine gun, observed a grenade thrown within destructible range of the emplacement and near his position. In picking up the grenade and (remainder of citation missing).