The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant Robert J. Lowe (ASN: 12138538), United States Army, for gallantry in action on 1 February 1944, near ****, Italy. Staff Sergeant Lowe, Platoon Sergeant, Company A, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, voluntarily led two men over 200 yards of open terrain under heavy fire to a position from which fire could be directed on groups of enemy which were threatening the right flank of the company during a heavy counterattack. Approximately twenty German infantrymen armed with rifles and machine pistols had broken through the forward outpost line. Staff Sergeant Lowe, and the two men with him, brought effective fire on this group of enemy and although Staff Sergeant Lowe was wounded in the right side, he effected the continuation of fire until fifteen enemy were wounded and four were captured. The attack was broken and the lost ground regained. Staff Sergeant Lowe’s heroic action was in keeping with the highest standards of the Armed Forces.