Christian Franklin Schilt

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to First Lieutenant Christian Franklin Schilt (MCSN: 0-863), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with Marine Observation Squadron 7/M (VO-7M), in action during the progress of an insurrection at Quilali, Nicaragua, 6, 7, and 8 January 1928. First Lieutenant Schilt, then a member of a Marine expedition which had suffered severe losses in killed and wounded, volunteered under almost impossible conditions to evacuate the wounded by air and transport a relief commanding officer to assume charge of a very serious situation. First Lieutenant Schilt bravely undertook this dangerous and important task and, by taking off a total of ten times in the rough, rolling street of a partially burning village, under hostile infantry fire on each occasion, succeeded in accomplishing his mission, thereby actually saving three lives and bringing supplies and aid to others in desperate need.