Rustu Urer

The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Rustu Urer, First Lieutenant, Turkish Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations in action against enemy forces at Sanggorangp’o, Korea on 28 and 29 May 1953. First Lieutenant Urer’s unit, while defending Outpost Carson, was attacked by determined enemy forces estimated to have been of battalion strength. Undaunted by heavy barrages of artillery and mortar falling on the position, he moved from one position to another, encouraging his men and directing the fire of his command until he was wounded. Refusing to be evacuated and with complete disregard for personal safety, Lieutenant Urer led his platoon forward in a valiant counterattack, which drove the hostile forces from the trenches and killed sixteen of the seventeen enemy encountered. Although surrounded and subjected to repeated attacks, the small outpost, greatly outnumbered by the enemy, fought back for more than two hours until it was finally annihilated by a numerically superior force. Lieutenant Urer continued to fight from his bunker until he was mortally wounded by enemy grenades.
Department of the Army: General Orders No. 17 (March 8, 1954)