The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Corporal Donald Procter (MCSN: 283454), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while a member of the First Battalion, Eleventh Marines, FIRST Marine Division during action against enemy Japanese forces on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands on 14 October 1942. When a Marine bivouac area came under intense and prolonged bombardment by a number of Japanese ships and a major caliber projectile struck an occupied dugout, Corporal Procter, along with four other men, unhesitatingly set to work to rescue two Marines who had been buried under an avalanche of debris. Under continuous shell fire and aerial attack the crew persisted for nearly an hour in digging out and removing logs until the entrapped men were unearthed. On had been killed by the shell hit but the other, due to the quick thinking and untiring efforts of Corporal Procter and his comrades was undoubtedly saved from death by suffocation.