The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Henry Schauer, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company F, 2d Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division, in action at Cisterna di Littoria, Italy. On 23 May 1944, at 12 noon, Private First Class (now Technical Sergeant) Schauer left the cover of a ditch to engage four German snipers who opened fire on the patrol from its rear. Standing erect he walked deliberately 30 yards toward the enemy, stopped amid the fire from four rifles centered on him, and with four bursts from his BAR, each at a different range, killed all of the snipers. Catching sight of a fifth sniper waiting for the patrol behind a house chimney, Private First Class Schauer brought him down with another burst. Shortly after, when a heavy enemy artillery concentration and two machineguns temporarily halted the patrol, Private First Class Schauer again left cover to engage the enemy weapons single-handed. While shells exploded within 15 yards, showering dirt over him, and strings of grazing German tracer bullets whipped past him at chest level, Private First Class Schauer knelt, killed the two gunners of the machinegun only 60 yards from him with a single burst from his BAR, and crumpled two other enemy soldiers who ran to man the gun. Inserting a fresh magazine in his BAR, Private First Class Schauer shifted his body to fire at the other weapon 500 yards distant and emptied his weapon into the enemy crew, killing all four Germans. Next morning, when shells from a German Mark VI tank and a machinegun only 100 yards distant again forced the patrol to seek cover, Private First Class Schauer crawled toward the enemy machinegun. stood upright only 80 yards from the weapon as its bullets cut the surrounding ground, and four tank shells fired directly at him burst within 20 yards. Raising his BAR to his shoulder, Private First Class Schauer killed the four members of the German machinegun crew with one burst of fire.