The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class James N. Kaylor (MCSN: 2349911), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving with Company E, Second Battalion, Twenty-Sixth Marines, THIRD Marine Division, in the Republic of Vietnam, on 7 June 1968. While serving with the Second Platoon and on security patrol near Con Thien, Private First Class Kaylor and the patrol were ambushed by approximately two companies of enemy forces. Surrounded and pinned down for four hours without communications, an order was given to charge the enemy. Although Private First Class Kaylor’s grenade launcher became inoperable as the attack went forth, he drew his side arm and commenced firing on the enemy. Within a short time, all of his fellow Marines on the front lines were killed by enemy automatic weapons fire. Alone and with only three rounds of ammunition left, he called to the rear and located the only two remaining Marines. Moving into a crater which was near enough for them to supply him with grenades, he then single-handedly attacked the enemy until there was no return fire. As he and two of his comrades prepared to assault the enemy bunkers again, the remnants of the Second Platoon came on to relieve them. Private First Class Kaylor’s courage, bold initiative, and unwavering devotion to duty in the face of great personal danger were in keeping with the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.