The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Private First Class Loren E. Tracy (MCSN: 1098322), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a Fire Team Leader of Company E, Second Battalion, Seventh Marines, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced), in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 12 September 1951. Although sustaining a serious and painful chest wound when his fire team was subjected to an intense mortar barrage during a bitter fire fight with the enemy, Private First Class Tracy refused to be evacuated and rallied his men into position to act as a base of fire. A courageous and daring leader, he unhesitatingly charged forward in the face of intense hostile fire and personally knocked out two enemy bunkers with grenades, permitting the rest of the battalion to advance. Bravely refusing evacuation until the final objective was seized, Private First Class Tracy, by his inspiring leadership, aggressive fighting spirit and gallant devotion to duty, upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.