The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Silver Star to First Lieutenant (Infantry) Albert R. Krider, Jr. (ASN: 0-1323939), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with the 35th Infantry Division, in action in the vicinity of ****, France, on 20 November 1944. Lieutenant Krider, a forward observer, accompanied by a radio operator, was moving forward across an open field under enemy observation when enemy artillery fell about him and the radio operator who received a severe leg wound. As the enemy fire increased in intensity, Lieutenant Krider realized the impossibility of evacuating the enlisted man, who was obviously a litter patient. Instead, Lieutenant Krider remained with the man and, after he had applied a tourniquet to halt the flow of blood from the wounded man’s leg, started to dig a slit trench for him. AS the enemy fire fell closer to them, Lieutenant Krider was struck by shell fragments but, despite his wounds, remained for three hours with the enlisted man and later struggled three hundred yards to carry him to an aid station. The selfless action of Lieutenant Krider in placing the life of one of his men above that of his own is such gallantry in action as to be in accord with the military traditions of the United States.