Raymond C. Lemings
Home Town: Seminole, Oklahoma
Headquarters, Eighth U.S. Army, Korea: General Orders No. 49 (January 31, 1951) | General Orders No. 49 (January 31, 1951)
The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Raymond C. Lemings (RA18129754), Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations while serving with Company I, 3d Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. Private First Class Lemings distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action against enemy aggressor forces near Haman, Korea, on 21 September 1950. On that date, Private First Class Lemings’s platoon attacked against what was believed to be a small group of the enemy on an adjacent ridge. Upon reaching the enemy positions a sudden barrage of grenades revealed that the platoon had been drawn into a trap manned by over eighty enemy troops. Ordering his squad to a safer place, Private Lemings charged the enemy emplacements in the face of exploding grenades and launched an attack with his own grenades. Three times he returned for a new supply and charged back at the entrenched enemy. His outstanding courage and exemplary conduct so inspired the rest of the platoon that they swept up the hill routing the dazed and disorganized North Koreans.
Headquarters, Eighth U.S. Army, Korea: General Orders No. 49 (January 31, 1951)
