The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Corporal Anthony Frank DeMeo (MCSN: 664428), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a Machine Gun Squad Leader of Company B, First Battalion, Seventh Marines, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced), in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 23 April 1951. When his company was subjected to a vicious night attack by a numerically superior hostile force, Corporal DeMeo skillfully displaced his men into a position from which they could fire into the area of the enemy’s main effort and, despite hostile small-arms and automatic-weapons fire, placed himself forward of the squad in order to observe and direct their fire to best advantage. Although painfully wounded during one fierce enemy assault, he retrieved an automatic rifle from a fallen comrade and added its fire to that of his machine guns, steadfastly remaining at his post throughout two additional assaults until he fell, mortally wounded. By his inspiring leadership, valiant determination and courageous devotion to duty in the face of heavy odds, Corporal DeMeo contributed materially to the successful repulse of the hostile attack and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.