Milton E. Seifert

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Milton E. Seifert (37771482), Private First Class, U.S. Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Company L, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division. On 26 April 1945, at 1500 hours, near Bocksberg, Germany, Private First Class Seifert, acting as first scout, armed only with a BAR, fifty yards in front of his platoon, opened fire on a fifteen-man enemy patrol 100 yards to his front, killing one, wounding three and capturing eleven. A few minutes later, Private First Class Seifert, now sixty yards in front of his platoon, charged through machine gun fire into an enemy-held house to silence a German machine gun with his BAR. Private First Class Seifert killed one German, wounded two and captured two.