The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class George H. Sattler (MCSN: 937816), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a Rifle Squad Leader of Company C, First Battalion, Twenty-first marines, THIRD Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 8 March 1945. When his unit was pinned down and suffered heavy casualties from enemy mortar and small-arms fire, Private First Class Sattler crawled through the hostile fire to a vantage point seventy-five yards in front of the lines where he could observe the enemy mortar positions two hundred yards to his front. Unable to destroy the positions with flat trajectory fire, he returned to his platoon command post and phoned the location of the Japanese emplacement to his company’s mortar section and, although wounded, refused evacuation in order to direct the fire until the hostile positions were destroyed and his platoon’s attack could continue. His courage and devotion to duty reflect the highest credit upon Private First Class Sattler and the United States Naval Service.