Clyde A. Shults

The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Sergeant Clyde A. Shults, 37 055 403, Infantry, Company “G”, 15th Infantry Regiment. On 10 April 1945, at 0700 hours, near Hambach, Germany, when enemy machine gun fire delivered from a range of 200 yards temporarily halted his patrol, Sergeant Shults, alone, inched his way over flat, open terrain through ankle-deep mud to silence the strongpoint. While enemy gunners followed his movement with a hail of bullets, Sergeant Shults halted thirty yards from the hostile emplacement, and, despite being painfully wounded by this grazing fire, raised himself to his feet and moving to within ten yards of the enemy gunners, hurled a grenade on them. A second later Sergeant Shults sprayed the strongpoint with bursts from his submachine gun, killing three enemy soldiers and wounding three.