Gene E. Oxley

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Gene E. Oxley, Seaman First Class, U.S. Coast Guard (Reserve), for gallantry while on the U.S.S. LCI(L)-85 during the assault on the coast of France on 6 June 1944, and for extraordinary courage in volunteering and twice taking a line ashore, in the face of heavy machine gun and shell fire, in order to assist troops unloading from the ship to the beach through chest deep water.