Marine Corps League: Silver Star (Cpl Reynolds Detachment)

Reynolds Detachment
Silver Star

THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
WASHINGTON

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TAKES PRIDE IN
PRESENTING THE

SILVER STAR MEDAL POSTHUMOUSLY TO

CORPORAL PHILIP A. REYNOLDS
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

FOR SERVICES AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING CITATION:
"FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY AND INTREPIDITY WHILE
SERVING AS A MACHINE GUNNER OF COMPANY E, SECOND
BATTALION, FIRST MARINES, FIRST MARINE DIVISION
(REINFORCED), IN ACTION AGAINST ENEMY AGGRESSOR
FORCES IN KOREA ON 29 NOVEMBER 1950. WITH HIS
COMPANY UNDER ATTACK BY A VASTLY OUTNUMBERING
HOSTILE FORCE, CORPORAL REYNOLDS REPEATEDLY
EXPOSED HIMSELF TO A DEVASTATING BARRAGE OF ENEMY
AUTOMATIC-WEAPONS AND SMALL-ARMS FIRE TO DELIVER A
LARGE VOLUME OF ACCURATE FIRE ON THE ATTACKERS.
MORTALLY WOUNDED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR HIS GUN
AND PUT IT BACK INTO OPERATION AFTER IT HAD JAMMED
DURING THE FURIOUS ACTION, CORPORAL REYNOLDS
SERVED TO INSPIRE HIS COMRADES TO HEROIC EFFORTS
AND CONTRIBUTED IMMEASURABLY TO THE SUCCESSFUL
REPULSE OF THE ENEMY ATTACK. HIS OUTSTANDING
COURAGE AND LOYAL DEVOTION TO DUTY IN THE FACE OF
OVERWHELMING ODDS WERE IN KEEPING WITH THE HIGHEST
TRADITIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL SERVICE. HE
GALLANTLY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY."

FOR THE PRESIDENT
R. M. ANDERSON
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY