The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant [then Private] Shiro Kashino (ASN: 39919567), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with Company I, 3d Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, attached to the 92d Infantry Division, on 14 April 1945, in Italy. Staff Sergeant Kashino led a platoon in an attack on an enemy observation post located on a hill overlooking Carrara. Leaving one squad to support the assault as a base of fire, Staff Sergeant Kashino led two squads to the foot of their objective where he sent one squad to the right and one to the left while he proceeded alone to the peak of the reverse slope. Reaching the top, he encountered two enemy emplacements, each manned by two enemy soldiers. Opening up with his submachine gun, he killed two and wounded a third as they fled down the slope of the hill. Meanwhile, hostile forces began firing on the assault group from three sides and the platoon leader asked for volunteers to go back and ask for mortar support. He volunteered to go and, while descending the hill, noticed a number of his men who were wounded and under enemy machine gun fire. The foe fired at him but he delivered his message to the mortar section and returned to aid the wounded, found their strength depleted by casualties, and went back to the mortar section and obtained makeshift litters and bearers who, directed by him, evacuated the injured. He then returned to the top of the hill and reorganized his men for defense. At dawn, the foe counterattacked again but Staff Sergeant Kashino fully exposed himself and wounded two and pinned down three more of the foe who were attempting to creep up on his position. His heroic gallantry exemplifies the highest traditions of the American Soldier.