The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Second Lieutenant Teddy L. Hansen (MCSN: 0-5868), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands on October 14, 1942. When Company A of the First Pioneer Battalion, FIRST Marine Division was subjected to concentrated artillery fire, Second Lieutenant Hansen although painfully wounded in the chest by a shell fragment, persistently refused medical attention in order to assist in the removal of other injured men to the company aid station. With utter disregard for his own personal safety in the face of continuous shell fire, he carried on until he had made sure that all others had been taken care of an then, too weak to stand up without assistance, he, himself submitted to treatment. His heroic spirit of self-sacrifice, maintained in the face of acute pain and waning strength, was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.