The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Corporal Clarence T. Frey (MCSN: 469056), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as a Platoon Leader serving with the First Battalion, Twenty-Eighth Marines, FIFTH Marine Division, during action against enemy Japanese forces at Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands, on 10 March 1945. When his platoon leader was killed, Corporal Frey immediately assumed command and vigorously pushed the attack toward the objective, an enemy-held ridge to the front, unlike the platoon was pinned down by heavy machine-gun fire from a hostile pillbox on the right flank which had been by-passed by an adjacent unit. Working his way toward the pillbox, he attacked it with hand grenades and silenced it, killing five of the enemy before being severely wounded himself, thereby so inspiring his men that they pushed on to the objective and routed the Japanese from their stronghold. His courageous initiative and bold leadership reflect the highest credit upon Corporal Frey and the United States Naval Service.