The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Captain Leroy A. Seipp (MCSN: 0-31459), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Pilot of a Plane in Marine All Weather Fighter Squadron FIVE HUNDRED THIRTEEN (VMF(AW)-513), in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 13 November 1951. A daring and resourceful airman, Captain Seipp was directly instrumental in destroying a total of two enemy locomotives and five supply-laden boxcars within a period of twenty-four hours. Locating a damaged hostile train which had halted in a virtually inaccessible canyon near Singye while he was participating in an intruder mission during the early morning hours, he carried out a series of devastating attacks on his objective, scoring direct hits with cannon fire and napalm which completely destroyed the locomotive together with its tender and one boxcar. While engaged in a similar mission in the vicinity of Singosan after dusk on the same day, he pressed repeated bombing and strafing runs on another enemy train until his ordnance was expended and, although exposed to a hail of hostile automatic weapons fire during the action, scored direct hits on the locomotive and accompanying boxcars. By his exceptional courage, superb airmanship and unswerving devotion to the fulfillment of his missions in the face of grave danger, Captain Seipp upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.