Takashi Uyeno

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Takashi Uyeno (39365275), Private First Class, U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with Company C, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, attached to the 92d Infantry Division, near Casala, Italy, on 18 April 1945. Although seriously wounded, Private First Class Uyeno, with three fellow soldiers, attempted to dash across exposed ground, subject to intense enemy fire, in order to set up a machine gun position and relieve some of their hard-pressed comrades in a nearby house. Upon reaching the building he saw that two of his fellow soldiers who had made the dash with him were casualties in the open field and again disregarding the enemy fire he rushed to the field to retrieve the machine gun. Setting it up in an exposed position he pinned down a large force of the enemy until a rescue was effected. By his heroic action Private First Class Uyeno not only accounted for many Germans killed and wounded, but facilitated the rescue of the entire group.