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 Keith M. Carstedt (ASN: 20702033), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with Company D, ** Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division, on ** April 1943, in the vicinity of *****, Tunisia, North Africa. During this day’s action, Private First Class Carstedt, while on duty as a driver of a quarter-ton Ron Car, was informed that 81-mm. mortar ammunition was running low at a forward platoon ammunition dump. He immediately volunteered to take a load of ammunition forward. After receiving permission of his platoon leader, Private First Class Carstedt loaded over a hundred rounds of HE ammunition in his small vehicle and although his route necessitated him covering many yards of open terrain within perfect enemy observation, and although he passed through almost constant heavy enemy artillery and machine gun fire, he delivered the ammunition and returned to his platoon leader. The initiative, bravery and devotion to duty displayed by Private First Class Carstedt is exemplary and a credit to the Armed Forces of the United States.