The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class Benjamin K. King (ASN: 58555596), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Medical Detachment, 222d Infantry Regiment, 42d Infantry Division. On 25 January 1945, the building occupied by Pfc King and two others was attacked by enemy parachute bicycle battalion who were attempting to infiltrate behind Schweighausen. Pfc King left the house in the face of continuous rifle and machine gun fire and after attending the wounded, including two seriously wounded Germans, persuaded a German aid man to move the German wounded into the house. He then accompanied the German aid man from the street straight into a newly built German machine gun nest and persuaded the Germans to permit him to evacuate his own wounded in a ton and a half truck. By his coolness, courage and quick thinking, Pfc King succeeded in evacuating wounded men from an area of violent combat saving them from possible death or capture.