The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Captain (Chaplain’s Corps) Holland Hope, United States Army, for gallantry in action against the enemy while serving as a Chaplain with Company I, 3d Battalion, 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, in action against the enemy in Korea, from 20 to 23 October 1950. Chaplain Hope, although suffering from a severe back injury incurred in a combat parachute jump three days before, voluntarily went with a company of the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment on a combat patrol from Sunchon, North Korea to Sinpo, North Korea. The purpose of the patrol was to recover the wounded and retrieve the dead of an ambush of another company of the regiment on 21 October 1950. The area where the other company was ambushed had not been cleared and was known to still be defended by North Koreans. Arriving at Opa-ri, North Korea the combat patrol was engaged in a fire fight in which approximately ten enemy were killed and forty captured. During the fire fight an interpreter learned that a wounded American soldier was hiding in a stack of rice in an open field. At a time when the enemy fire was the heaviest, Chaplain Hope, with utter disregard for his own safety, moved form a covered position through open terrain and across the field where the wounded soldier was hiding. In assisting and comforting the wounded man, Chaplain Hope was completely exposed to enemy small arms fire. The selfless and courageous conduct of Chaplain Hope was performed while in great pain from a broken back of such compelling consequences that he has since been evacuated to the United States. The gallantry of Chaplain Hope reflects great credit on himself and the military serviced.