The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Jack Neil Miller, United States Coast Guard (Reserve), for conspicuous gallantry in action while serving as coxswain of a landing craft during the assault on Salerno, Italy, on 9 September 1943. Courageously maneuvering his boat in the face of intense enemy gunfire, Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Miller skillfully effected a successful landing and although painfully wounded when hostile machine gun fire shattered the steering wheel in his hands, continued to carry out his important duties thought the unloading operations and then returned to his ship.