The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Bronze Star Medal to Lieutenant, Junior Grade (MC) Leo T. Delaney (NSN: 0-497692), United States Navy, for meritorious achievement in connection with operations against the enemy while serving as a Battalion Surgeon with a Marine Infantry Battalion in Korea from 10 to 12 June 1951. Lieutenant, Junior Grade, Delaney, with great efficiency, maintained a forward aid station located in the immediate rear of the assault units even though this arrangement required moving though an intense bombardment from enemy artillery. On one occasion he commandeered a tank and directed it up the floor of a valley under heavy mortar fire to evacuate ten casualties from another unit while rendering first aid to the stretcher patients placed on top of the tank. Later in the evening and again the next day he led an evacuation party through a secluded valley on the flank of the battalion, without benefit of security, to contact large groups of wounded Marines who had become lost with the onset of darkness. His unstinting efforts during two days and a night, without sleep and in spite of personal danger, to insure treatment and evacuation of the critically wounded materially contributed to the high morale among the members of his battalion. Lieutenant, Junior Grade, Delaney’s courageous actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.