The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) to Private Charles R. Mitchie (MCSN: 498286), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for gallantry in action at New Georgia, Solomon Islands, in aggressively assaulting a machine-gun emplacement on his own initiative wherein he killed the entire crew and captured the weapon on 8 July 1943.