Francis J. Bauer’s Silver Star citation

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the SILVER STAR MEDAL to

CORPORAL FRANCIS J. BAUER, USMC,

for service as set forth in the following

CITATION:

“For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands on October 14, 1942.At the time Company A of the First Pioneer Battalion, First Marine Division, was under concentrated artillery fire, Corporal Bauer, on duty in our defensive line, was in charge of a left flank machine-gun section. When one of the positions was blown up by a near hit and two men were badly injured, he carried them to the company aid station through two hundred yards of tremendous shellfire, then picked up a stretcher and ran back to assist in the removal of another wounded comrade. By his heroic conduct, maintained at great risk in the face of grave danger, he undoubtedly helped save the lives of three marines who otherwise might have perished.”

For the President,
Frank Knox
Secretary of the Navy.