The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Platoon Sergeant Edmund F. Keough (MCSN: 253297), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a Platoon Sergeant of Company G, Second Battalion, Twenty-second Marines, SIXTH Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces at Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 13 May 1945. During the assault of a strongly defended enemy ridge near Sugar Loaf Hill, Platoon Sergeant Keough, realizing that his platoon’s advance was held up by fire from a hostile machine gun emplacement, voluntarily braved the enemy fire and charged into the enemy position head-on. Firing an automatic rifle, he killed two of the enemy and destroyed the emplacement as a source of fire, thereby enabling his platoon to continue the advance. By his indomitable fighting spirit and courageous devotion to duty, Platoon Sergeant Keough upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.