The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant Mitsuo Suzuki (ASN: 30105560), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with Company I, 3d Battalion, 442d Regimental Combat Team, attached to the 34th Infantry Division, on 27 June 1944, in the vicinity of Sassetta, Italy. When the Third Battalion was halted because of concentrated enemy fire, Sergeant Suzuki voluntarily accompanied a combat patrol which was sent out to test the enemy’s disposition. The enemy was firing from a machine gun emplacement in a concrete building and from machine pistols and rifles emplaced in heavily wooded slopes on its flanks. One of the men had crawled within 15 yards of the machine gun nest but was mortally wounded immediately after pulling the pin from his grenade. Hearing his call, Sergeant Suzuki crawled from his position 20 yards away, under constant enemy fire to the wounded soldier and securing the grenade from him, threw it into the machine gun emplacement in the building. Although wounded immediately afterwards, his work was accomplished by the one grenade which enabled the platoon to advance.