The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Colonel Raymond Keith Gallagher (AFSN: 4280A), United States Air Force, for gallantry in action against an armed enemy of the United Nations as a Pilot of an F-80 Shooting Star Fighter-Bomber and as Commanding Officer of the 8th Fighter-Bomber Group, FIFTH Air Force, on 29 August 1952. On that date, Colonel Gallagher led the group on three successive maximum effort strikes against the heavily defended enemy Capitol, Pyongyang, North Korea. Colonel Gallagher added the striking power of his group to the combined United Nations forces in carrying out the most devastating destruction ever accomplished in a single day up to that date in the Korean campaign. With complete disregard for the intense and accurate anti-aircraft fire, Colonel Gallagher, on three successive missions, made extremely daring and dangerously low dive bombing runs directly through the curtain of bursting shells. Displaying superior dive bombing proficiency, Colonel Gallagher scored direct hits on a power transmission station and two separate factories. Leaving the area on each mission only when certain that maximum destruction had been inflicted upon the target, Colonel Gallagher each time led his group safely back to their base. Under his competent direction, a total of one hundred and sixty-six effective sorties were accomplished without loss of personnel of aircraft, while the enemy’s war potential in that area was dealt a devastating blow. Colonel Gallagher’s aggressive leadership and disregard for his own safety by personally leading his group on all three missions was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflected great credit upon himself, the FAR EAST Air Forces, and the United States Air Force.