Gordon I. Oshikata

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Gordon I. Oshikata (30105776), Private First Class, U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with Company K, 3d Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, attached to the 36th Infantry Division, on 1 and 4 November 1944, in France. Private Oshikata crawled forward for a distance of 40 yards under enemy fire to locate a machine gun position which had stopped his company’s advance. He then signaled his men to come forward and led them in a frontal assault which put the emplacement out of action and routed the supporting snipers. On 4 November, when two tankmen were seriously wounded during an attack on an enemy strong point he crawled 30 yards to a point behind a tree stump, and with protective fire from his BAR permitted the wounded men to be evacuated to the rear.