The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to First Lieutenant Bobby Carter (MCSN: 0-38204), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Command Pilot of a Transport Plane in Headquarters Squadron, FIRST Marine Aircraft Wing, in action against enemy aggressor forces in the vicinity of Hagaru-ri and Koto-ri, Korea, from 1 to 5 December 1950. Braving a surrounding concentration of enemy troops estimated at seventy thousand, some of whom were entrenched within two hundred yards of the airstrip at Koto-ri, First Lieutenant Carter carried out a series of vital transport missions from extremely small and hastily constructed airstrips. Executing all landings and take-offs in the face of intense hostile small arms fire, he successfully delivered seventeen loads of urgently needed ammunition, medical supplies and food to beleaguered friendly ground troops in the Chosin Reservoir Area. Returning on each occasion with his aircraft dangerously overloaded with the sick and wounded, he carried all casualties safely to a rear area. By his outstanding airmanship, daring initiative and unfaltering devotion to duty throughout, First Lieutenant Carter upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.