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Awards Received

  • Silver Star

    Service:

    United States Marine Corps

    Rank:

    Corporal

    Batallion:

    3d Battalion

    Regiment:

    1st Marines

    Division:

    1st Marine Division (Rein.)

    Action Date:

    July 26 – 27, 1953

    Commanding General, 1st Marine Division: Serial 265 (January 4, 1954)

    The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Corporal George R. Broadhead (MCSN: 1199232), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a Wireman of Company H, Third Battalion, First Marines, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced), in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on the night of 26 – 27 July 1953. When landline communications between the company command post and one of the platoons was severed by devastating hostile mortar and artillery fire during a vicious enemy attack on the company sector of the main line of resistance, Corporal Broadhead fearlessly traversed an open area of over seven hundred yards in the face of murderous hostile fire in order to lay new wire. Although painfully wounded, he refused medical treatment and, when the intense hostile barrage again severed the wire, voluntarily returned over the exposed area with a new spool of wire to restore communications. By his resourcefulness, courageous initiative and aggressiveness, Corporal Broadhead contributed materially to the success of his unit in repulsing an enemy attack by rapid and well-coordinated artillery fire and in remaining in control of the vital position. His inspiring devotion to duty was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.