Philip L. Stern

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Philip L. Stern (B-114699), Hospitalman, U.S. Navy, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Medical Corpsman attached to Company M, 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, during combat operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam on 8 February 1968.