The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Corporal Albert T. Destefano (ASN: 20127104), United States Army, for gallantry in action at New Georgia, Solomon Islands, in courageously going forward under heavy machine gun fire to safely evacuate a wounded comrade at the cost of a wound to himself on 4 August 1943.