Kenneth E. Kinter

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Silver Star Medal to Kenneth E. Kinter, First Lieutenant (Infantry), [then Second Lieutenant], U.S. Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Company I, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. On 20 April 1945, at 0900 hours, in Nurnberg, Germany, First Lieutenant Kinter ran 100 yards under fierce enemy rifle and machine gun fire to a large building in which he took cover and engaged a Germany machine gun nest 100 yards away in a fight. Despite the heavy stream of bullets that poured through the window from which he was firing, and with only a carbine with which to ward off the enemy, First Lieutenant Kinter fought valiantly against heavy odds, and in half an hour he killed or wounded five Germans manning the machine gun emplacement and the company was therefore able to move forward.