(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: 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 Robert J. Truax, United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving as a Medical Aidman with Company A, 13th Engineer Combat Battalion, in action against the enemy near Hoengsong, Korea, on 12 February 1951. When his unit was ambushed, after building an escape route for a task force which was withdrawing, under heavy fire Corporal Truax saved many wounded men and treated them, until he collapsed from his own wounds. The gallant actions and dedicated devotion to duty demonstrated by Corporal Truax, without regard for his own life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army.