The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sergeant Roy Browning (ASN: 38066333), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with Battery **, *** Armored Field Artillery Battalion, in action in the vicinity of *****, Tunisia. On the morning of ** March 1943, Sergeant Browning was hauling ammunition to his battalion which was then in action against the enemy. During a burst of heavy counter-battery fire directed at the Battalion, his ammunition half-track was struck by an 88-mm. shell which set the vehicle on fire, killing one man and injuring two others. Sergeant Browning promptly secured a fire extinguisher from an adjacent vehicle and, heedless of personal safety, though a case of small arms was going off, proceeded to put out the fire. Due to his heroic action the injured men were saved and valuable equipment recovered.