The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) to Corporal Hubert E. Dion (MCSN: 425844), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for gallantry in action while serving with the Fourth Marine Raider Battalion at Vangunu, Solomon Islands, in locating and destroying three enemy machine-gun emplacements and killing two enemy snipers on 1 July 1943.